A Panel Commemorating Johnny L. Baily, Ph.D - Lemon Project Spring Symposium: Healing Ourselves: Black LGBTQ+ Community Making in the Eras of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19
This panel discussion, Healing Ourselves: Black LGBTQ+ Community Making, centers Black LGBTQ+ community-building as a form of leadership, healing, and resistance. Convened in commemoration of Johnny L. Baily, Ph.D., the conversation reflects on the importance of collective care, shared memory, and intentional community spaces in sustaining Black LGBTQ+ lives.
Rather than focusing on individual experience alone, the panel explores how healing practices, cultural memory, and mutual support function as community infrastructure—particularly in the face of systemic harm, marginalization, and loss. The discussion highlights community-making as both a survival strategy and a leadership practice.
This resource supports leadership and capacity building by documenting how Black LGBTQ+ communities generate resilience, knowledge, and care outside of—and often in response to—institutional failure.
Moderator: Dr. Jajuan S. Johnson
Panelists: Dr. Daniel D. Driffin, Dr. Kyle Fox, Robert Suttle
