Kenyon Farrow

Kenyon Farrow is a Black gay activist and writer based in New York City. Kenyon is the former Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice, and has also been a longtime HIV/AIDS activist having worked on HIV/AIDS with Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Housing Works and Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project. He currently serves on the board of Streetwise and Safe in NYC, and the advisory committee of BreakOUT! in New Orleans. In addition to his political work, he is a prolific writer, who blogs at KenyonFarrow.com, is the co-editor of Letters From Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out (Nation Books, 2005) and his work has appeared in the anthologies Spirited: Affirming the Soul of Black Lesbian and Gay Identity (Red Bone Press, 2006), Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Same-Sex Marriage (AK Press, 2010), and the forthcoming For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Still Not Enough (Magnus Books). His work has also appeared in publications such as The Huffington Post, theGrio.com, Colorlines, American Prospect, and Alternet. Kenyon was named one of Out Magazine’s Out 100 for 2008, the Advocate Magazine’s “40 Under 40” LGBT Leaders in the United States for 2010, and one of Black Entertainment Television’s “Modern Black History Heroes” for 2011.