Founded in 2013 as a community organization that plans programs, provides space for dialogue, and strategizes to give voice to the Black LGBTQ* community. Pictured l-r John Bentley, Lexington Mayor Jim Gray, Mark Johnson, and Thomas Tolliver at the 2014 Roots & Heritage Festival Parade 2014.

Though not always obvious or out, there have always been African American LGBTQ organizations in the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky.