Gay Conferences and published a news magazine, Black/Out, which offered funding and support for the organization. National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference The first National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference took place in Washington D.C in 1979. The event took place in conjunction with the 1979 national March on Washington, and spurred more black LGBT people in the community to organize. The creation of Howard University's Lambda Student Alliance, the first openly LGBT organization at an HBCU, is one example of the event's influence. LGBT people of color from the United States, Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean participated in the conference. It garnered more attendees than the second conference, held two years later in Chicago, although the 1981 conference was noted for its more diverse participants. The second conference's theme was, "A United Rainbow of Strength." Black/Out Black/Out was a quarterly magazine first published by NCBLG in 1986 that offered funding and support for the organization. With Joseph Beam as its editor, the magazine considered itself to be "the voice of a new movement of Black Lesbians and Gays" and a "revolutionary publication" in the face of discrimination. It primarily focused on highlighting the erasure of black people from LGBT spaces, as well as offering discourse for race and sexual identity. The newsletter Habari-Habari predicated Black/Out as a bimonthly publication beginning in 1980. Notable members Michelle Parkerson Joseph F. Beam Audre Lorde Barbara Smith Essex Hemphill See also African-American culture and sexual orientation Salsa Soul Sisters References External links "National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays" at the website of the course "The LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement 1960 - 1990: Exploring History and Current Consequences" at University of Wisconsin-Madison; accessed 18 August 2010. History of LGBT civil rights in the United States Defunct LGBT organizations in the United States Defunct African-American LGBT organizations LGBT political advocacy groups in the United States