Our Black Gay Diaspora Podcast™

Interviewing over 50 professionals in the entertainment, literary, and other industries, creator and host Erick Taylor Woodby shares what sparked the idea in February 2021 in Stockholm, Sweden, to create a platform showcasing a global population often overlooked by LGBTQ+ and Black media outlets.

Delano Burrowes is an American writer, poet, artist, and curator who has written for publications like HuffPost. He's from Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the same city as early 20th Century Black American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois. Delano's also co-founder of The Blackyard Collective NYC. He shares what motivates him to embrace who he is while encouraging others to do the same.

Adé Adeniji is a Dutch-based British consultant, coach, trainer, investigator, and mediator. With an academic background in employment law, Adé has over 20 years of experience in Human Resources in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. He’s also the co-founder of The Quest Collective C.I.C, a group supporting gay, bisexual, and queer men. Additionally, Adé the founder and director of Walk With You Coaching & Consulting, where he encourages leaning into vulnerability and cultivating one’s self-expression. Adé is one of the contributing writers in the 2014 Black and Gay in the UK: An Anthology, and co-author of 2012’s Love Me As I Am: Gay Men Reflect on Their Lives.

Cyril Nri is a BAFTA-nominated British actor whose career spans over four decades, traversing stage, film, and television. Notable roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company include Lucius in Julius Caesar, Ariel in The Tempest, and Polonius in Hamlet. He earned his BAFTA nomination playing Lance Sullivan in Russell T. Davies’ 2015 Channel Four series Cucumber. Cyril joins Erick to share about his professional journey and what motivates him to be at the top of his game.

Stefano Duc is an Italian writer for Il Grande Colibrì, a publication offering offer a "wide vision on the LGBTQIA world". Digging beneath the surface of Italian society to write about the country’s diversity, Stefano also highlights the challenges faced by those who don’t fit one’s perception of who is Italian. With family origins in Mauritius, an island nation off the southeast coast of Africa, Stefano shares his journey as an Afro-Italian citizen, writer, and activist.

Interviewed by notables like Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Lulu® is a pediatrician and LGBTQ+ and D.E.I.B. advocate, helping parents to accept, affirm, and support their LGBTQ+ children. Known as The Momatrician, Dr. Lulu® is a media consultant, event host, bestselling author, and 3x TEDx Speaker. Her literary works include the books How to Raise Well-Rounded Children, How to Teach Your Children About Racism, and the recent Dr. Lulu's Self-Love Journal. Dr. Lulu® shares with Erick the vibrancy that shines through her works, motivating her to fight the good fight of love and prosperity for herself and others.