I would like share the press release below with anyone interested in the rights of African People not only in Nigeria but also abroad including the USA. Since the recent Supreme Court law on gay marriage in the United States, the LBGTQ community members have been embolden to place pressure on both independent and national groups who are still weary, disagree with and question LBGTQ's unusually strong push that borders on bullying to get many organizations to fully embrace LBGTQ rights movement and its narrative. Straight Black Pride Movement has been facing aggressive and disheartening pressure from LBGTQ individuals/groups for wanting to promote a family friendly environment and development of strong healthy relationship between families, women and men through 1st Annual Black Family Convention at the renewed National Black Theater in Harlem, NY. The Press release details the SBPM's upcoming Family convention, press conferences and the unbelievable, aggressive backlash a family friend event is receiving from LBGTQ community. Despite seeming ironic to some, the LBGTQ community has bullied many organizations and people who question and disagree with LBGTQ for multiple reasons (not just religious), the double standard bullying and who promote pride. My apologies for the long message. Please pass the press release below to everyone who is interested and concerned.

From, Aan

Straight Black Pride: https://www.facebook.com/StraightBlackPride

LBGTQ Community Pressuring the National Black Theatre Into Canceling SBPM 1st Annual Black Family Convention:

Straight Black Pride Movement - SBPM Press Release:
Press Release -------

To All Members of the Black World Family:

The Straight Black Pride Movement (SBPM) is an international Black movement designed to promote the growth and development
of strong Black families throughout the world. It focuses on building healthy relationships between Black men and women that
will lead to an increase in traditional Afrikan (male/female) marriages, strong family development, cooperative Black economic development,
and ultimately Black nationhood.

Our 1st International Convention is scheduled to be held in New York City the weekend of August 22nd and Aug 23rd 2015.
On Saturday, Aug 22nd, we will have a Black family day in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY. On Sunday, Aug 23rd, we’re scheduled to have
our 1st International Convention in Harlem, NY at the National Black Theatre.
We are writing to inform all interested parties about the recent set of events that have occurred surrounding our launching.
The LGBTQ community is aggressively putting pressure on the National Black Theatre, an historical Black-owned and operated institution,
to cancel our event. It is our understanding that the LGBTQ community is threatening to remove all of its support from the theatre unless
they cancel the 1st SBPM International Convention. The pressure from the LGBTQ community has been so aggressive that the National Black Theatre
has acquiesced and notified us of their intent to cancel our Black family event.
The irony is that the National Black Theatre has had any number of openly LGBTQ events at their facility in the recent past and the heterosexual
Black community did nothing to prevent them from peacefully gathering and spreading their message and beliefs. However, when Black heterosexuals
decided to gather and promote Black family values and culture, the LGBTQ community rallied together to pressure a Black-owned and operated institution
in the Black community to discriminate against our rights to use the same facility.
In addition to attacking the livelihood of the National Black Theatre, the LGBTQ community is intentionally misrepresenting the Straight Black Pride Movement (SBPM)
platform throughout social media. They openly attacked our “Black Wives Matter” campaign and launched a national campaign to slander our movement and prevent us from
being able to meet in public facilities. Our movement was called a “Hate Group” and someone even stated that whoever created the SBPM platform should be
“burned alive.” Apparently, the LGBTQ community believes that heterosexual Black people who believe in Black marriage and traditional Black family structures
do not have the right to celebrate our culture in public.
We believe that this is a direct assault on the rights of Black heterosexuals everywhere. If the LGBTQ community is given the power by Black-owned institutions
to decide which groups can and cannot use its facilities, then Black communities throughout America and across the world will literally find ourselves facing an
international LGBTQ McCarthyism (Pink Scare) where any group who doesn’t openly endorse the homosexual agenda is unfairly labeled a “Hate Group.” It is apparent
by their behavior that the homosexual community believes that Black heterosexuals do not have any rights that homosexuals are bound to respect, no rights to the
freedoms afforded by the U.S. Constitution, and that Black people do not have the right to define the best relationship possible as being between a Black Man and
Woman.

This letter is being written to make all Straight Black Proud people aware that our family structure and culture is under direct attack and that we must stand
firm in our commitment to our children. We have the responsibility of creating safe, comfortable, productive space for Black children to be reared and groomed
to become the most productive citizens that we can possibly make them. In our estimation, we can only do this within the context of healthy Black family culture
- and that means Black man, woman, and child.

We are asking everyone from the Black world community who believes in protecting and preserving Black culture and who believes in the sacredness of the relationship
between the Black man and woman to contact the National Black Theatre and discourage them from acquiescing to the pressure from the LGBTQ community. Their contact
information is:

National Black Theatre
Sade Lythcott, CEO
2031-33 Fifth Ave
NYC, NY 10035
O: 212.722.3800
F: 212.926.1571
sade@nationalblacktheatre.org
www.nationalblacktheatre.org

Please disseminate this information as widely as possible so that Black people around the world are made aware that our very survival is being threatened by those who are offended by seeing Black men and women in committed relationships raising Black children.
Straight Black Pride Movement (SBPM)