David Malebranche·Oct 9, 2025He Ain’t Heavy: Imagining Safety Together as Black Gay MenLast month, in the span of one week, I had three distinct encounters with friends and loved ones, all fellow Black gay men, where each one…A response icon6A response icon6
David Malebranche·Oct 26, 2024To Be Aging, Gifted, Black, and GayIt starts with one gray hair.A response icon1A response icon1
David Malebranche·Oct 8, 2023“You’re Still Single? What’s Wrong With You?”While scrolling through social media recently, I came across a post from a fellow Black same gender loving (SGL) man that caught my eye:A response icon7A response icon7
David Malebranche·Feb 3, 2022Striving = Death: The Scourge of Familial Silence on Black Gay MenHyattsville Mayor Kevin Ward died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after his body was found in a park in McLean, Virginia on…A response icon7A response icon7
David Malebranche·Nov 29, 2021Memory“I’m really sorry to reach out like this, David, but I’m worried about my brother. I think he has AIDS.”A response icon1A response icon1
David Malebranche·Mar 3, 2021Medical Racism and Black Distrust of the COVID-19 vaccines: Not Just TuskegeeWe are over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Twelve months of bumbling and anemic federal responses regarding personal protective…
David Malebranche·Sep 5, 2020Dear Black men: We can all be SuperheroesI went for a colonoscopy at the ripe young age of 49, a little over two years ago. I wasn’t experiencing abdominal pain, weight loss…
David Malebranche·May 28, 2020White Lies, Black BoogeymanDuring my second year of medical school, we had a weekly course on medicine and humanities. In it we tackled various social topics and how…
David Malebranche·Apr 22, 2020The Real Racial Disparity: COVID-19, the Surgeon General, and Public Health Messaging“Wash your hands more often than you ever dreamed possible. Avoid alcohol, tobacco, and drugs and call your friends and family, check in…A response icon2A response icon2
