Jay Penn is an American writer, producer, and singer. His 2024 album, Sky High Sunsets, features the songs “Euphoria (Say Yes)” and “Money”. In 2020, he released the EP, Before Then. His 2018 EP is titled Pennding. Jay is also the creator, writer, and lead in the SLAYTV web series, Love & Us. It centers on the lives of three 30-something Black gay men who navigate dating and friendship in Los Angeles. Photography by @giannasnapped and graphic design by @jazimarj.

André Wade is the State Director for Silver State Equality, Nevada’s statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization. André leads legislative, policy, and government affairs work, as well as fundraising, political and advocacy activities. In May 2018, he was one of The Advocate's ‘Champions of Pride’. In May 2023, André was featured in Modern Luxury Las Vegas magazine as one of the 15 Most Influential People. His book, Seven Ways to Disappear: The Book within the Book, is “a creatively insightful guide to the reinvention of the self.”

This episode features The Karamazovs, Rami Margron and Jordan McCree. Rami is an American actor, playwright, dancer and physical comedian. Their résumé includes being a founding member of Reconnect, an African-diaspora dance theater company, a resident artist at San Francisco’s Crowded Fire Theater, and acting in televisions series like Law & Order, New Amsterdam, and Ray Donovan. Jordan is an an American composer who has collaborated on projects with Clubbed Thumb, Theatre Horizon, The Wilma Theater, and the Philadelphia Theatre Company. He is also a member of the hip-hop collective, ILL DOOTS.

Anthony Oakes is an American comedian, writer, actor, and producer who is taking comedy by storm. His clean, yet edgy, southern, intellectual, witty humour will have you reeling with laughter. He is a Washington, D.C. resident who has performed at The DC Improv, DC Drafthouse, The Bier Baron Comedy Loft, Busboys and Poets, and The Wonderland Ballroom. Anthony has also been at The Apollo, The John F. Kennedy Center, The DC Improv, The Broadway, The Westside, and The Greenwich Village Comedy Clubs in New York City, and The Laugh Factory, Comedy Store, Flappers, and The Ice House Comedy Club in Los Angeles. In 2021, he was the recipient of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's prestigious Mayoral Arts Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts.

Mark Broomfield (PhD, MFA) is an award-winning American scholar and artist, and an Associate Professor of English and Founding Director of Performance as Social Change at SUNY Geneseo. He has written for numerous publications in the areas of race, gender, sexuality, dance performance, and ethnography, and lectured, choreographed, and directed across the United States. Broomfield's book, Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight (2024), explores Black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance. As a dancer, he has performed with national and international repertory companies, such as Cleo Parker Robinson Dance in Denver, Colorado, and worked with some of the most diverse and recognised African American choreographers in the American modern dance tradition.

Anthony Green is the American playwright of the hit plays When Boys Exhale and Gay Love Jones. When Boys Exhale is based on the 1995 film, Waiting to Exhale, and has travelled to Nashville, Atlanta, and Houston. Anthony is also the founder of Cagedbirds Productions, a Washington, D.C.-based company that “has affirmed the black, LGBT lived experience on screen and on stage.” It also produces 'The Writers Forum', an annual panel of Black LGBTQ+ writers from across the U.S. who discuss the craft, life and business of writing.