Deemed a staple in the Black gay community, Victor has also performed as a featured artist for the Pure Heat Community Festival. He created this event to celebrate both Black Music Month and Pride Month as well as provide a platform to independent Black queer artists. On Juneteenth 2019, Victor produced the inaugural installment of the Pride & Soul Festival in Atlanta, GA. He has also served as an international teaching artist with The Broadway Dreams Foundation for the past four years and facilitated workshops with the Arts Education Program of Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company. His point of view and choreography style has dazzled national audiences, allowing him to work with Kandi Burruss, Lil’ Wayne, Iggy Azalea, August Alsina, and Jennifer Hudson and more as a choreographer and creative director. A choreographer, vocalist and actor, Victor was born and raised on the Southside of Atlanta, GA with educational and artistic reinforcement from Tri-Cities High School and Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Simply put, Kia Comedy is not just VICTOR JACKSONĪs a Black gay man, Victor has committed his life to using art as a tool to shift the perception of people who look like and love like him. She has produced events with Georgia Equality, the Human Right’s Campaign, and Gayborhood, and she is an advocate and activist in the LGBTQ community. Kia’s work can also be found in The Advocate, Curve Magazine, GA Voice, and more. Kia recently completed a Fulbright Research Fellowship to study abroad in Belize, and her research is published and implemented in American curricula and potentially in classrooms throughout the country. She does so by sharing her experiences growing up in church, as an educator, as number 11 of 12 siblings, and as a married lesbian in an interracial relationship in the South. With a social media following of over 79k, Kia uses her platform to encourage acceptance, diversity, and unity.
She’s also headlined Clexacon, Atlanta and Philly Dyke March, Sisterspace Women’s Festival, Womxn of Color Weekend, Nashville Gay Pride, Plezzure Island Weekend, Washington, D.C.’s Masculine of Center Conference, and Sweet Heat Miami’s. Kia produces and hosts LGBTQ parties, events, and fashion shows across the country, including the Andro Fashion Show. She’s worked with LOL Network, Netflix, ATT’s “Codes of Culture,” campaign, SVTV Network, and she’s also headlined her signature Lez Laugh Comedy tour and shows with some of the country’s most prominent LGBTQ comedians. Kia Barnes, also known as Kia Comedy, is an Atlanta-based comedian, host, and event producer. Vaughn of The Steve Harvey Show, TC Carson of Living Single, Fred Jerkins of Dark Child Entertainment, Drea Kelly of VH1’s Hollywood Exes, gospel singer Micah Stampley and managing Grammy-nominated and 7x Stellar Award winning gospel artist Byron Cage, and KIA BARNES
Within his agency David has had the privilege of working with many celebrity influencers such as the legendary gospel group The Clark Sisters, actor Malik Yoba, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Trina Braxton and Evelyn Braxton of Braxton Family Values, Terri J.
The 15 year veteran communications specialist brings his unique skills in marketing, branding, sales, and public relations both in entertainment and corporate environments to bare through his firm, The David Brand. I love modern dance and use it as a healing DAVID ROBINSON The Georgia native (Albany) spent her formative years in Brooklyn, NY, and is a proud alum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Hispanic Linguistics.īesides politics, Canon has a true passion for dance as she shared in an interview with CNN. Although slight in stature, this mighty stand for justice sparked a national backlash against such laws throughout the country.Įlected in 2016, Canon serves as one of the youngest members of the Georgia State House at 30 years of age.
Georgia State House of Representative (58 th District)Īll of America watched as Representative Cannon refused to be shut out of Governor Brian Kemp’s quarters as he signed a bill to suppress the votes of Black Georgia residents. We wanted to spotlight some of the city’s finest members of the Black LGBT community who are making their mark on this great city. Whether in the fields of business, film & television, sports, or the arts, the A.T.L. Since the Olympics were held there in 1996, the city has grown immensely. Atlanta is on the rise, as the “The City Too Busy Too Hate” continues to emerge as the best place for Black folks to thrive.