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Tamara Leigh

Advocate and Activist, Tamara Leigh has dedicated her life to championing for the BIPOC, QTPOC and LGBTQ+ Communities. Starting her career in Public Relations with the formation of Roc Candy Media, an urban PR firm specializing in media management, brand development and event coordination in Rochester, NY in 2010, Tamara coordinated events for thousands of people and was honored to do PR for The Avenue Blackbox Theatre, City of Rochester and Rochester Black Pride. Leigh went on to become the Director of Operations and Public Relations for Out Alliance and the Editor of Empty Closet Magazine (the longest continuously published  LGBTQ+ publication in the nation). Tamara has spoken and provided educational services around the topics of Implicit Bias, All Black Lives Matter, Queer and Trans Rights and the Intersectionality of QTPOC at rallies, in Board Rooms, and for classes and companies nationwide. In 2020, Leigh launched Blaque/OUT Consulting and Blaque/OUT Magazine to further educate and create space for  Black and Brown Queer Voices. Leigh is a proud mother of two young Black sons and all of her work is centered around creating a world where they will be seen, heard, respected, protected and judged by the content of their character. 

Tamara Leigh Blaque/OUT Magazine

Speaking Engagements:

Professional Organizations:

Speaking Engagements:

  • Guest Lecturer SUNY Brockport: ACTIVISM Dr. Radcliff 12/2019, 12/2020, 4/2021, 4/2022
  • WXXI Connections Radio Broadcast with Evan Dawson: HIV 12/2018, 6/2019, 10/2020 
  • City Magazine Cover January 2019
  • GENDA Signing NYC 1/2019
  • Community Panel Regarding Community/Police Relations Jan 2019 
  • Panelist for Rainbow Dialogues 2/2019 
  • Host of Brunchin’ with Dee & T. Radio Show WAYO 104.3FM 2017-2018
  • Host of The Situation on WAYO 104.3FM 2018-2020 
  • Co-Chair Rochester, NY Pride Parade and Festival 2019 & 2020
  • Co-Chair Rochester Black Pride, Rochester, NY 2016-2020 
  • GEVA Theater Recognition Radio, December 2020
  • Feature in Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra , “Women’s Suffrage: Past & Present” 1/2020
  • Monroe Community College (Rochester NY 2021) Framework for Racial Equity Summit Speaker
  • Yoga 4 A Good Hood (Rochester, NY) Board Member and Media Consultant, 6/2021
  • Speaker on Intersectionality, Arts & Qulture: St. Pete Pride 2021 (St. Petersburg, FL) 
  • Community Liaison for the Memorial Art Gallery/ U of R World AIDS Day 2021 and AIDS Poster Project Exhibition 2022
  • Panel Moderator for Memorial Art Gallery/ University of Rochester/ ImageOUT AIDS Poster Project "Up Against the Wall Exhibit" HIV/AIDS Awareness Documentary Screening "We Were Here"  discussing the lack of representation and diversity in film April 2022 
  • Training for the Rochester Police Accountability Board: "Intersectionality, Gender Identity, The Queer Community & Policing" April 2022. 

Recognitions:

Professional Organizations:

Speaking Engagements:

  • 2021-St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce ‘Good Burger” Award Nominee 
  • 2021-Rochester Black Pride LGBTQ+ Champion Award  
  • 2021-“Let Us Be” Black Giving Fund Grant Recipient 
  • 2020-Abolitionist  Teaching Network “Single-Mom” Award 

Professional Organizations:

Professional Organizations:

Professional Organizations:

  • Rochester LGBTQ Together
  • BlaQQueer Unity Council of Tampa Bay 
  • Tampa Bay Black Lesbians 
  • Black, Queer Tampa Bay 

Media (Visit our Consulting Page for Workshops and Panels)

A 25-Year-Old Latinx Trans Woman Was Reported Murdered in Florida
The first Pride was a riot, and Tampa Bay should always remember the Black and Brown folks still fighting for the freedom to love
How to explain Pride Month to your kids
Centering Ourselves
Memorial remembers victims of nightclub shooting
Rochester Urban Fashion Week readies for fun
RPD to keep low profile at annual pride parade
Summer is here and keeping cool on a humid day wasn't easy
LGBTQ+ Community in Rochester Rallies to Support BLM Movement
Helping LGBTQ+ Youth Navigate the Holidays
NYS suicide prevention task force addresses concerns
Local leaders react to Gov. Cuomo’s quest to ban Gay Panic Defense
Rochester organizations willing to go viral in the fight to stop HIV
Out Alliance calls for discussion of police presence at this year’s ROC Pride Parade
St. Pete community mourns the loss of murdered transgender woman

St. Pete's Pride Fest 2021

Navigating Pronouns

Pride Night Rochester Americans Hockey

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