Darnell L. Moore (born January 24, 1976) is an American writer and activist whose work is informed by anti-racist, feminist, queer of color, and anti-colonial thought and advocacy. Darnell's essays, social commentary, poetry, and interviews have appeared in various national and international media venues, including the Feminist Wire,The Feminist Wire, Darnell L. Moore Ebony magazine,Ebony.com, Darnell L. Moore The Huffington Post,The Huffington Post, Darnell L. Moore. The New York Times, and The Advocate.
Career Moore is an Editorial Collective Member of the Feminist WireDarnell Moore. Feminist Wire, November 15, 2011. and co-author, with former NFL player Wade Davis, II, of a bi-monthly column on The Huffington Post Gay Voices focused on black manhood and queer politics titled "Tongues Untied."Tongues Untied. Huff Post Gay Voices, July 6, 2012. Moore has served appointments as a visiting fellow at Yale Divinity School and a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York UniversityCenter for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Darnell Moore, Visiting Scholar. Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality New York University, Coming Out, or, Inviting In?: Reframing Disclosure Paradigms. and has served as a lecturer at Rutgers University and The City College of New York (CUNY). Moore is a board member of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at CUNY and The Tobago Center for Study and Practice of Indigenous Spirituality. He has interviewed Frank Mugisha,Darnell Moore, An Interview with Frank Mugisha, LGBT Freedom Fighter in Uganda, November 14, 2011. Steve Harper,Steve Harper. Cheryl Clarke (Lambda Literary),Darnell Moore, The Never-Ending Resource that is Black Queerness, July 6, 2011. Amiri Baraka and Mayor Cory Booker. Moore is part of the Audre Lorde Human Rights Speaker Series at The Sexuality, Gender & Human Rights Program at Harvard Kennedy School, CARR Center for Human RIghts Policy
Moore's memoir, No Ashes in the Fire, a “critically-acclaimed memoir about growing up black and queer in New Jersey in the ’80s”, was released in 2018. The book was selected as A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography.
Moore is now a Director of Inclusion for Content and Marketing at Netflix. He hosts the podcast, Being Seen, which focusses on the gay and queer Black male experience.
Citations Moore's work on "complex relationships between race and sexuality in the black community" cited in Patrick S. Cheng's Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology, 2011.Patrick S. Cheng, Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology.
Palestinian solidarity work Moore is a member of the International Committee on Queer BDS and Pinkwashing for World Social Forum 2013.Signatory of the letter from the 1st US delegation of LGBTQ folk to Palestine, Queer Solidarity with Palestine. On charges of Anti-Semitism and Palestinian Solidarity Activism.
Personal life Moore is queer.
Honors and awards 2012: American Conference on Diversity, Humanitarian Award – for his advocacy in the city of Newark where he served as Chair of the LGBTQ Concerns Advisory Commission under the auspices of Mayor Cory A. BookerPhotos from Essex County Humanitarian Awards Dinner. 2012: Rutgers University LGBTQ and Diversity Resource Center, Outstanding Academic Leadership Award – with Prof. Beryl Satter, for their work on developing the Queer Newark Oral History ProjectQueer Newark History Project.Our Stories, Queer Newark, Our Stories. First Annual Episcopal Diocese of Newark's Dr. Louie Crew Scholarship for individuals and groups working "at the intersection of sexuality and faith."Christian Paolino, The OASIS honors Dr. Louie Crew, presents first annual scholarship and grant. June 4, 2012. In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, sparking the start of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, Queerty named him one of the Pride50 “trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance and dignity for all queer people.
Works and publications Books
Articles
Moore, Darnell L. (June 25, 2019) "The Gentrification of Queerness". The Nation.
See also LGBT culture in New York City List of LGBT people from New York City
References
Further reading Uptown Social Magazine: Darnell L. Moore. (feature). Signified: Darnell Moore. (documentary).
External links
Where is your line? Inspiring Young Leaders to End Sexual Violence, Darnell Moore & Queer Newark Oral History Project.