Donald Suggs Jr. Way (Manhattan)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of Avenue B and East 6th Street
Honoree: Donald Suggs Jr., (d. 2012) was a longtime resident of 525 East 6th Street whose activism and artistic work forever changed the East Village. He he is widely known for his contributions to Black LGBTQ rights and for transforming HIV messaging campaigns. Before joining Grassroots Leadership, he was a senior editor at The Village Voice, and the former associate director of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD. He also organized a campaign against homophobia in the music industry that was the basis for the British Broadcasting Company film by Issac Julien, "A Darker Shade of Black." In 2001, he founded People Using Media to do Prevention, or the PUMP project, which taught young people from neighborhoods decimated by HIV how to do video production, then co-produced HIV prevention films with them. As a freelance writer, he wrote for publications ranging from The Advocate to The New York Times. He also served as board chair for Manhattan Neighborhood Network. (Rivera)
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