Massimadi: Afro LGBTQ+ festival of film and art
After 13 years of quiet advocacy, organizers of the annual Massimadi Festival say issues relating to the Afro LGBTQ community in Quebec are slowly finding traction but there’re still some ways to go. “We got involved in the Black History Month celebrations in 2009 to raise awareness on sexual diversity in the Black community and to fight homophobia, so far we have been successful because there has not been any backlash, but I know we still have a long way to go,” says Laurent Maurice Lafontant, president of the foundation that organizes the month-long Afro LGBTQ+ festival of film and …