{{short description|LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS activist}} {{BLP primary sources|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Kenyon Farrow | image = Kenyon Farrow Laura Flanders Show 2020.jpg |caption=Farrow in 2020 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|11|13}} | birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio }}
'''Kenyon Farrow''' (born November 13, 1974) is an American writer, activist, director, and educator focused on progressive racial and economic justice issues related to the LGBTQ community. He served as the executive director of Queers for Economic Justice<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM07802.html|title=Queers For Economic Justice Records, circa 2000-2014.|website=Cornell University Library}}</ref>'','' policy institute fellow with National LGBTQ Task Force,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thetaskforce.org/task-force-at-the-out-on-the-hill-black-lgbt-leadership-summit/|title=TASK FORCE AT THE 'OUT ON THE HILL BLACK LGBT LEADERSHIP SUMMIT'|website=The Task Force|date=18 September 2012 }}</ref> U.S. & Global Health Policy Director of Treatment Action Group<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/staff/kenyon-farrow|title=Kenyon Farrow, U.S. and Global Health Policy Director|website=Treatment Action Group|access-date=2018-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711073826/http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/staff/kenyon-farrow|archive-date=2019-07-11|url-status=dead}}</ref>'','' public education and communications coordinator for the New York State Black Gay Network,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/nyregion/serving-gays-who-serve-god.html|title=Serving Gays Who Serve God|last=Newman|first=Andy|work=The New York Times|date=16 September 2005 }}</ref> senior editor with TheBody.com and TheBodyPro.com,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebody.com/index/contrib/kfarrow.html|title=Kenyon Farrow|website=The Body, The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource}}</ref> and co-executive director of Partners for Dignity and Rights.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-31|title=We are Excited to Announce our new Co-Executive Director!|url=https://dignityandrights.org/2020/08/we-are-excited-to-announce-our-new-co-executive-director/|access-date=2021-10-26|website=Partners for Dignity & Rights|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Kenyon Farrow|url=https://www.publichealthpost.org/profiles/kenyon-farrow/|access-date=2021-10-26|website=Public Health Post|date=December 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2021, Farrow joined PrEP4All as managing director of advocacy & organizing.
== Early life and education ==
Descended from generations of African Methodist Episcopal ministers, Farrow began his work as an activist in 1985 at the AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland, where he taught and organized sex-education workshops for high school students across his home city. The experience left him intensely interested in social determinants surrounding HIV/AIDS.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.poz.com/article/larger-narrative-kenyon-farrow|title=Larger Narrative, Kenyon Farrow|last=Halter|first=Casey|work=POZ}}</ref> Witnessing HIV/AIDS discrimination in the church was a motivator for his activism:. "Since HIV/AIDS was automatically linked to homosexuality back then, you'd hear a lot of the fire-and-brimstone-type speeches, about how being gay was an abomination and a sin."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-and-lgbt-in-blackchurch/|title=BLACK AND LGBT IN THE BLACK CHURCH|last=Anderson|first=Tomika|work=Black Enterprise}}</ref>
An alumnus of the Hawken School, after graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University with his BA in theatre, he moved to NYC in 1999 to pursue an acting career. Arriving 3 weeks before the death of Amadou Diallo, Farrow found himself profoundly affected by the event as well as by pervasive incidents of violence against black and brown queer youth in the West Village.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://citylimits.org/2003/03/15/making-change-a-house-of-our-own/|title=Making Change: A House of Our Own|date=March 15, 2003|work=City Limits}}</ref> Following an acclaimed performance as James Baldwin in ''Mr. Baldwin Goes to Heaven'' at La MaMa Etc.,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/03/movies/theater-review-puzzling-over-the-intentions-on-a-bumpy-road-to-heaven.html|title=THEATER REVIEW; Puzzling Over the Intentions On a Bumpy Road to Heaven|last=D. J. R.|first=D. J. R. Bruckner|work=The New York Times|date=3 March 2000 }}</ref> Farrow shifted his focus from performing to combating these acts of social injustice.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://feministing.com/2011/10/15/the-feministing-five-kenyon-farrow/|title=The Feministing Five, Kenyon Farrow|website=Feministing|date=15 October 2011 }}</ref>
For the next few years he worked against incarceration issues as the southern region coordinator of Critical Resistance<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.warresisters.org/nva/nva-march-april-2006/not-showing|title=Not Showing Up|website=War Resisters|date=19 January 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tagline/2016/fall/countering-contagion-racism-through-resistance|title=COUNTERING the CONTAGION of RACISM THROUGH RESISTANCE {{!}} Treatment Action Group|website=www.treatmentactiongroup.org|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref> and fought against gentrification and the unjust prosecution of queer youth in New York City as a founding member and adult ally of FIERCE! Responding to the dearth of Black voices on queer and racial issues, Farrow began blogging resulting in the publication of a number of acclaimed essays.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.coloursofresistance.org/552/is-gay-marriage-anti-black/|title=Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black?|last=Farrow|first=Kenyon|website=Colours of Resistance|access-date=2018-11-24|archive-date=2018-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124162441/http://www.coloursofresistance.org/552/is-gay-marriage-anti-black/|url-status=dead}}</ref> These essays continue to receive citations in numerous books and academic journals and helped to expand the tone of conversations<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.colorlines.com/articles/performing-blackness-wont-fill-our-asian-american-culture-deficit-op-ed|title=Performing Blackness Won't Fill Our Asian-American Culture Deficit|last=Zhang|first=Muqing|website=Color Lines|date=22 August 2018 }}</ref> on race and sexuality in the media.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sites.middlebury.edu/queerepresentations/|title=QUEER REPRESENTATIONS IN MEDIA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN RACE, GENDER, CLASS, SEXUALITY, AND THE MATRIX OF DOMINATION|last=Wright|first=Kyle|date=May 1, 2017|website=Middlebury College}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics|last=Raphael-Hernandez|first=Heike|publisher=NYU Press|year=2006|isbn=978-0814775813}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lgbtracialequity.org/perspectives/perspective.cfm?id=4|title=The layers of economic hardship|website=Racial Equality}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/blacks-gay-marriage-and-white-lies/47357|title=Blacks, Gay Marriage, and White Lies|last=Essig|first=Laurie|date=May 31, 2012|website=The Chronicle of Higher Education}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=American Cultural Studies, Second Edition|last=Burgett|first=Bruce|publisher=NYU Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0814708019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Walburn|first=Samuel|title=The Loving Analogy: Race and the Early Same-Sex Marriage Debate|url=https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1019&context=puhistorian|journal=The Purdue Historian|volume=8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Populism's Power: Radical Grassroots Democracy in America|last=Grattan|first=Laura|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2017|isbn=978-0190277635}}</ref> Concurrent with this time, Farrow attended City University of New York's School of Journalism while also working at Clamor Magazine as the magazine's culture editor.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archive.clamormagazine.org/about/|title=About|work=Clamor Magazine}}</ref>
== Career == {{primary sources section|date=December 2021}}
Working with the New York State Black Gay Network as communications and public education coordinator in the mid-2000s, Farrow created anti-homophobia social marketing campaigns to combat misconceptions about HIV/AIDS and discrimination against the LGBTQ community in NYC by collaborating with religious organizations to diminish the impact of homophobia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebody.com/article/not-enough-done-counter-african-american-myths-hiv-new-york-advoc|title=Not Enough Being Done to Counter African-American Myths About HIV, New York Advocate Says {{!}} TheBody|website=www.thebody.com|date=4 April 2008 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref> Farrow joined Queers for Economic Justice as a volunteer shelter project facilitator, later becoming the organization's executive director.<ref name="BET">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bet.com/article/dmypcx/condom-use-higher-among-blacks-than-other-groups|title=Condom Use Higher Among Blacks Than Other Groups, But Not Enough to Beat HIV|date=November 30, 2011|work=Black Entertainment Television}}</ref>
As U.S. & Global Health Policy Director of Treatment Action Group, Farrow used his platform to push coverage of access to healthcare as a social justice and human rights issues,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tagline/2016/fall/beyond-tuskegee|title=Beyond TUSKEGEE {{!}} Treatment Action Group|website=www.treatmentactiongroup.org|language=en|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref> fight against HIV discrimination,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tagline/2014/spring/fool-us-once|title=Fool Us Once… {{!}} Treatment Action Group|website=www.treatmentactiongroup.org|access-date=2019-07-26|archive-date=2019-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726065641/http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tagline/2014/spring/fool-us-once|url-status=dead}}</ref> mobilize campaigns to halt the rapid spread of HIV and tuberculosis among people of color throughout the south,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/press/ete-southern|title=TAG Expands Its End the Epidemic Campaign to Include Southern States Heavily Impacted by HIV {{!}} Treatment Action Group|website=www.treatmentactiongroup.org|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poz.com/article/larger-narrative-kenyon-farrow|title=A Larger Narrative|date=2017-01-09|website=POZ|language=en|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref> and push for the expansion of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and fair drug pricing to end the national HIV epidemic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tagline/2015/spring/toward-national-hivaids-strategy|title=Toward an Ambitious National HIV/AIDS Strategy {{!}} Treatment Action Group|website=www.treatmentactiongroup.org|language=en|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tagline/2017/fall/johnson-farrow_ete-medicaid-expansion-southern-states|title=Ending the Epidemic without Medicaid Expansion? {{!}} Treatment Action Group|website=www.treatmentactiongroup.org|access-date=2019-07-26|archive-date=2019-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726065449/http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tagline/2017/fall/johnson-farrow_ete-medicaid-expansion-southern-states|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tagline/2016/spring/greed-and-necessity-regulation|title=Greed and the Necessity for Regulation {{!}} Treatment Action Group|website=www.treatmentactiongroup.org|language=en|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref> During this time he also published a qualitative research project exploring the role of community mobilization in response to HIV, as well as helping to craft a national strategy to end stock-outs of TB drugs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/content/webinar-community-mobilization-%E2%80%93-assessment-mechanisms-and-barriers-cbos-and-asos-nine-us|title=Webinar: Community mobilization – an assessment of mechanisms and barriers at CBOs and ASOs in nine U.S. metropolitan areas {{!}} Treatment Action Group|website=www.treatmentactiongroup.org|access-date=2019-07-26|archive-date=2019-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191126003308/http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/content/webinar-community-mobilization-%E2%80%93-assessment-mechanisms-and-barriers-cbos-and-asos-nine-us|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/hiv/community-mobilization|title=Community Mobilization: An Assessment of Mechanisms and Barriers at Community-Based and AIDS Service Organizations in Nine U.S. Metropolitan Areas {{!}} Treatment Action Group|website=www.treatmentactiongroup.org|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref> Additionally, as a direct consequence of his lobbying, Governor Andrew Cuomo's NYS End AIDS 2020 agenda was moved to include new funding for the expansion of LGBTQ youth housing options and provide minors with HIV or reproductive care while maintaining their privacy, even if they were on their parents’ insurance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/blog/treatment-action-group-commends-governor-cuomo-launching-historic-new-york-state-plan-end-aids|title=Treatment Action Group Commends Governor Cuomo for Launching Historic New York State Plan to End AIDS {{!}} Treatment Action Group|website=www.treatmentactiongroup.org|access-date=2019-07-26|archive-date=2019-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726065448/http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/blog/treatment-action-group-commends-governor-cuomo-launching-historic-new-york-state-plan-end-aids|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/press/2014//NYS-end-aids-cuomo|title=New York State Plan to End AIDS, NYS, Cuomo, HIV, prevention, treatment, pride, Medicaid, Gilead, Bristol-Myers Squibb, BMS, AbbVie, Janssen, Merck, ViiV, Harrington, Horn, Farrow {{!}} Treatment Action Group|website=www.treatmentactiongroup.org|access-date=2019-07-26|archive-date=2019-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726065446/http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/press/2014//NYS-end-aids-cuomo|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/aids/ending_the_epidemic/docs/recommendations/recommendations_for_consideration.pdf|title=Ending the Epidemic Task Force Recommendations|website=NYS Department of Health}}</ref> On October 30, 2017, Farrow joined ''TheBody'' and ''TheBodyPro—''the world's largest publications devoted to reporting on HIV and AIDS—as a Senior Editor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.remedyhealthmedia.com/sites/www.remedyhealthmedia.com/files/Farrow-Joins-TheBody-TheBodyPro-11-6-17.pdf|title=Kenyon Farrow Joins TheBody and TheBodyPRO|last=Lee|first=Andrew|date=November 6, 2017|website=Remedy Health Media|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125073913/http://www.remedyhealthmedia.com/sites/www.remedyhealthmedia.com/files/Farrow-Joins-TheBody-TheBodyPro-11-6-17.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He departed the HIV/AIDS focused publications in August 2020 to assume leadership of Partner for Dignity and Rights as co-executive director.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-31|title=We are Excited to Announce our new Co-Executive Director!|url=https://dignityandrights.org/2020/08/we-are-excited-to-announce-our-new-co-executive-director/|access-date=2020-12-22|website=Partners for Dignity & Rights|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Kenyon Farrow|url=https://www.publichealthpost.org/profiles/kenyon-farrow/|access-date=2020-12-22|website=Public Health Post|date=December 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> In June 2021, he joined PrEP4All―a health equity organization co-founded by Peter Staley―as managing director of advocacy & organizing.
A strong advocate for equal representation, Farrow is noted for his hard line against discrimination.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.colorlines.com/articles/eight-openly-queer-rappers-worth-your-headphones|title=Eight Openly Queer Rappers Worth Your Headphones|last=King|first=Jamilah|date=May 11, 2011|work=Color Lines}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/after-some-celebrating-lgbt-organizations-talk-voting-rights-194962/|title=After Some Celebrating, LGBT Organizations Talk Voting Rights|last=Hagen|first=Jamie J.|date=2013-07-12|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wewhofeeldifferently.info/interview.php?interview=105|title=An Interview with Kenyon Farrow|last=Motta|first=Carlos|date=February 22, 2011|website=We Who Feel Differently|quote="The LGBT movement isn't interested in challenging larger structures of racism or economic deprivation because it sees value in assimilating the few gay and lesbians who can assimilate into white, middle-class, 'Christian, capitalist patriarchy', as bell hooks once said. If that's your goal, you will then only talk about poverty, wealth distribution, and racial justice in ways that are very tokenized."|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=August 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813145019/https://wewhofeeldifferently.info/interview.php?interview=105|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is also a proponent and user of Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as a means of deterring HIV.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bahler |first=Kristen |date=March 8, 2017 |title=This HIV Drug Is Making a Difference. Now Republicans Want to Make It Unaffordable |work=Money.com |url=https://money.com/healthcare-hiv-prep/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510194741/https://money.com/healthcare-hiv-prep/ |archive-date=May 10, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/hiv-mystery-solved/|title=HIV Mystery: Solved?|last=Murphy|first=Time|date=February 25, 2016|work=The Nation|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125073914/https://www.thenation.com/article/hiv-mystery-solved/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.intomore.com/culture/publix-grocery-chain-reverses-decision-will-allow-employees-prep-through-its-health-plan/feadb36755ac4a52|title=Publix Grocery Chain Reverses Decision, Will Allow Employees PrEP Through Its Health Plan|last=Rodriguez|first=Mathew|date=February 6, 2018|work=Into More|quote=It is very good news that Publix has decided to allow its employees to access PrEP through its insurance plans.|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125073849/https://www.intomore.com/culture/publix-grocery-chain-reverses-decision-will-allow-employees-prep-through-its-health-plan/feadb36755ac4a52|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Writing == {{primary sources section|date=December 2021}}
Farrow's writing tackles a range of difficult topics including race, inequality, healthcare, and sexuality and has appeared in major publications including LEVEL,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Farrow|first=Kenyon|date=2020-10-14|title=Prisons Are a Public Health Crisis — and the Cure Is Right in Front of Us|url=https://level.medium.com/prisons-are-a-public-health-crisis-and-the-cure-is-right-in-front-of-us-aecd54b442c3|access-date=2020-12-22|website=Medium|language=en}}</ref> The Atlantic,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/young-gay-black-and-at-risk-for-hiv/265792/|title=Young, Gay, Black—and at Risk for HIV|work=The Atlantic}}</ref> Color Lines,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.colorlines.com/articles/real-lesson-north-carolinas-amendment-1|title=The Real Lesson of North Carolina's Amendment 1|website=Color Lines|date=11 May 2012 }}</ref> The American Prospect,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://prospect.org/article/occupy-wall-streets-race-problem|title=Occupy Wall Street's Race Problem|website=The American Prospect|date=24 October 2011|access-date=24 November 2018|archive-date=7 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107020039/http://prospect.org/article/occupy-wall-streets-race-problem|url-status=dead}}</ref> Out,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.out.com/entertainment/art-books/2014/12/02/brontez-purnell-cruising-diaries-joys-writing-about-sex|title=Brontez Purnell On the Joys of Writing About Sex|work=Out Magazine}}</ref> POZ,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.poz.com/article/People-with-HIV-May-Need-Longer-TB-Treatment-12007-9551|title=People with HIV May Need Longer TB Treatment|date=June 8, 2007|work=POZ Magazine}}</ref> Logo,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newnownext.com/author/kenyon-farrow/|title=Kenyon Farrow {{!}} NewNowNext|website=www.newnownext.com|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref> HIV Plus,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hivplusmag.com/stigma/2016/6/02/prince-died-hiv-stigma-lives|title=Prince Died, But HIV Stigma Lives|date=June 2, 2016|work=HIV Plus Magazine}}</ref> Rewire.News,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://rewire.news/article/2017/06/05/cbs-sunday-morning-uses-aids-anniversary-blame-shame/|title='CBS Sunday Morning' Uses AIDS Anniversary to Blame and Shame|work=Rewire.News}}</ref> HuffPost,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-the-aids-epidemic-mat_b_6633566.html|title=Why The AIDS Epidemic Matters To Black Lives|work=HuffPost}}</ref> Q Salt Lake Magazine,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://qsaltlake.com/news/2018/10/11/hiv-crime/|title=Stop Calling The Cops|website=Q Salt Lake Magazine|date=11 October 2018 }}</ref> The Feminist Wire,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thefeministwire.com/2012/04/anti-gay-marriage-groups-black-strategy-has-long-history/|title=Anti-Gay Marriage Group's Black Strategy Has Long History|date=April 10, 2012|website=The Feminist Wire}}</ref> TheGrio, Washington Blade,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/07/10/d-c-aids-plan-ambitious-but-must-include-community/|title=D.C. AIDS plan ambitious but must include community|date=July 10, 2015|work=Washington Blade}}</ref> The Scholar and Feminist Online,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sfonline.barnard.edu/a-new-queer-agenda/afterword-a-future-beyond-equality/|title=Afterword: A Future Beyond Equality|website=S & F Online|date=6 April 2012 }}</ref> LAMDA Literary,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/12/06/reader-meet-author-personal-advice-from-kenyon-farrow/|title=Reader Meet Author: Personal Advice from Kenyon Farrow|date=December 6, 2012|work=LAMDA Literary}}</ref> The Black AIDS Institute,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blackaids.org/blog/kanye-west-rewrites-hip-hops-gay-record/|title=KANYE WEST REWRITES HIP-HOP'S GAY RECORD|date=August 23, 2005|work=The Black AIDS Institute|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125115640/https://blackaids.org/blog/kanye-west-rewrites-hip-hops-gay-record/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and AlterNet.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.alternet.org/story/151444/gay_marriage_in_new_york%3A_progressive_victory_or_gop_roadmap|title=Gay Marriage In New York: Progressive Victory or GOP Roadmap?|date=June 27, 2011|work=AlterNet}}</ref>
He also co-edited ''Letters from Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Letters from Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out|publisher=PublicAffairs|year=2005|isbn=9781560257479|url=https://archive.org/details/lettersfromyoung0000berg}}</ref> and ''Stand Up!: The Shifting Politics of Racial Uplift''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Stand Up!: The Shifting Politics of Racial Uplift|publisher=South End Press|year=2012|isbn=9780896087989}}</ref>''.'' His work is included in the anthologies: ''We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America'',<ref>{{Cite book|title=We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America|publisher=PM Press|year=2012|isbn=978-1604864809}}</ref> ''Spirited: Affirming the Soul of Black Lesbian and Gay Identity'',<ref>{{Cite book|title=Spirited: Affirming the Soul of Black Lesbian and Gay Identity|publisher=RedBone Press|year=2006|isbn=9780965665933|url=https://archive.org/details/spiritedaffirmin00gwin}}</ref> ''Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Same-Sex Marriage'',<ref>{{Cite book|title=Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage|publisher=Against Equality Press|year=2010|isbn=9780615392684}}</ref> ''For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Still Not Enough'',<ref>{{Cite book|title=For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough|publisher=Magnus Books|year=2012|isbn=9781936833153|url=https://archive.org/details/forcoloredboyswh00keit}}</ref> and ''Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam's Call''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam's Call|publisher=Vintage Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0975298756}}</ref>
He has appeared as a panelist, lecturer, and keynote speaker at Harvard University,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-health/event-summary-kenyon-farrow-trans-disciplinary-series/|title=How Policy And Community Mobilization Can Promote Equality In HIV Prevention|date=April 2, 2015|website=Harvard University}}</ref> UC Berkeley School of Law,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/kenyon-farrow/|title=Kenyon Farrow|website=Berkeley Law, University of California}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/biography/|title=Biography|website=Berkeley Law}}</ref> Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thebody.com/article/crystal-meth-gay-men-and-trans-women-of-color-was-|title=Crystal Meth, Gay Men, and Trans Women of Color Was the Topic at Last Week's Harlem Forum|last=Murphy|first=Tim|date=December 3, 2018|work=The Body}}</ref> Columbia School of Law,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/node/60501|title=Intersectionality, Coalitions and Politics" - George Lipstiz, UC Santa Barbara, and Kenyon Farrow|date=November 9, 2011|website=Columbia Law School|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=July 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711073824/https://www.law.columbia.edu/node/60501|url-status=dead}}</ref> Columbia University Center for Study of Social Difference,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.socialdifference.columbia.edu/events-1/queer-disruptions-iii|title=Queer Disruptions III|website=The Center for the Study of Social Difference|date=28 February 2019 }}</ref> Columbia University School of Public Health,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/events/sexual-health-conference-margins|title=Sexual Health Conference: At the Margins|website=Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health|access-date=2019-07-26|archive-date=2019-07-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711073826/https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/events/sexual-health-conference-margins|url-status=dead}}</ref> NYU,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://platformed.org/2012/09/a-new-queer-agenda|title=A New Queer Agenda|date=September 19, 2012|website=Platform for Pedagogy}}</ref> The New School Vera List Center for Arts and Politics,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.veralistcenter.org/engage/event/59/the-prison-industry-artistic-approaches-to-activism-/|title=The Prison Industry: Artistic Approaches to Activism|date=April 7, 2006|website=The Vera List Center|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125073941/http://www.veralistcenter.org/engage/event/59/the-prison-industry-artistic-approaches-to-activism-/|url-status=dead}}</ref> CUNY,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.danspaceproject.org/2016/12/02/clear-present-danger/|title=A Clear and Present Danger: "HIV/AIDS Now" in the Era of President Trump?|last=Fialho|first=Alex|date=December 2, 2016|work=Danspace Project}}</ref> University of Pennsylvania,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/rap-race-and-black-asian-relations|title=Rap, Race and Black-Asian Relations|date=January 23, 2006|website=Penn Today}}</ref> Hamilton College,<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 17, 2011 |title=Kenyon Farrow to Deliver Coming Out Month Address |url=https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/kenyon-farrow-to-deliver-coming-out-month-address |website=Hamilton College}}</ref> Mount Sinai Hospital Institute for Advanced Medicine,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://inside.mountsinai.org/blog/mount-sinai-west-recognizes-world-aids-day/|title=Mount Sinai West Recognizes World AIDS Day|date=Feb 1, 2017|website=Mt. Sinai}}</ref> National Conference of Black Political Scientists Annual Meeting,<ref>{{Cite SSRN|title=Silence, Omissions, and the Black Male Gay Body: HIV and the Unaccounted for Black Lives|date=October 13, 2016|ssrn = 2851608|last1=Farrow |first1=Kenyon }}</ref> NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://visualaids.org/events/detail/the-past-prepares-us-for-a-better-future-event-4-of-5|title=The Past Prepares us for a Better Future: Timothy DuWhite with Kenyon Farrow|date=April 28, 2018|website=Visual Aids}}</ref> NAACP,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.phillymag.com/g-philly/2011/07/21/naacp-talks-lgbt/|title=NAACP Talks LGBT Issues|last=McDonald|first=Natalie|work=Philadelphia Magazine|access-date=July 21, 2011}}</ref> Black Lives Matters Conference,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blacklifemattersconference.com/keynotes.html|title=Keynotes|website=Black Life Matters|access-date=2019-01-18|archive-date=2019-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621182106/https://www.blacklifemattersconference.com/keynotes.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> University of Wisconsin–Madison,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/17391|title=NEW ARGUMENTS FOR LIBERATION PANEL|date=April 21, 2009|website=UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN–MADISON}}</ref> Murphy Institute,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://queersurvivaleconomies.com/the-conference/|title=INVISIBLE LIVES, TARGETED BODIES|date=January 23, 2015|website=Queer Survival Economies}}</ref> Macalester College,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://webapps.macalester.edu/calendar/event.cfm?id=3560|title=Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black? Race Politics and the Gay Marriage Movement|date=September 14, 2006|website=Macalester College|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125030954/https://webapps.macalester.edu/calendar/event.cfm?id=3560|url-status=dead}}</ref> University of Maryland,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wmst.umd.edu/cohen|title="Punks, Bulldaggers, And Welfare Queens," Twenty Years Later: A Celebration Of The Scholarship Of Cathy Cohen|date=April 17, 2017|website=University of Maryland Department of Women's Studies}}</ref> Hampshire College,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://clpp.hampshire.edu/queering-reproductive-justice-unfinished-revolution|title=Queering Reproductive Justice: The Unfinished Revolution|date=March 11, 2016|website=Civil Liberties and Public Policy, Hampshire College|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=December 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217054544/https://clpp.hampshire.edu/queering-reproductive-justice-unfinished-revolution|url-status=dead}}</ref> Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/hunter-college-center-hivaids-research-chest-commemorate-20th-anniversary-major-conference/|title=Hunter College Center for HIV/AIDS Research (CHEST) to commemorate 20th Anniversary with Major Conference|date=September 12, 2016|website=Roosevelt House}}</ref> National Association of Black Journalists Conference,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.glaad.org/blog/national-association-black-journalists-conference-tiffany-warren-honored-glaad-panel-addresses|title=National Association of Black Journalists Conference: Tiffany Warren honored, GLAAD panel addresses reporting on anti-trans violence|last=Milan|first=Tiq|date=August 4, 2014|website=GLAAD|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125073905/https://www.glaad.org/blog/national-association-black-journalists-conference-tiffany-warren-honored-glaad-panel-addresses|url-status=dead}}</ref> Middlebury College,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sites.middlebury.edu/queerstudieshouse/history/kenyon_farrow-2/|title="When The Rainbow Ain't Enough": What Recent Queer Suicides Tell Us About The LGBT Movement|website=Middlebury College}}</ref> Seattle University,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/undergraduate-degrees/women-gender/events/past-events/|title=Past Events|website=WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES|access-date=2019-07-26|archive-date=2019-07-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711073818/https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/undergraduate-degrees/women-gender/events/past-events/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Left Forum,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bayarea.leftforum.org/people/kenyon-farrow|title=Kenyon Farrow|website=Left Forum|access-date=2019-07-26|archive-date=2019-07-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711073815/https://bayarea.leftforum.org/people/kenyon-farrow|url-status=dead}}</ref> UCLA,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uclahealth.org/ucla-to-host-conference-on-revolutionary-and-controversial-new-strategy-to-combat-hiv|title=UCLA to host conference on revolutionary and controversial new strategy to combat HIV - UCLA Health - Los Angeles, CA|website=www.uclahealth.org|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref> and Baker University Center at Ohio University.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ohio.edu/compass/stories/13-14/1/kenyon-farrow-hiv-aids.cfm|title=Kenyon Farrow to speak on Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Feb. 5|last=McCoy|first=Kaitrin|date=January 31, 2014|work=Ohio University Compass}}</ref>
He has appeared on PBS Newshour to talk about the commercialization of the Gay Pride Parade specifically in 2019,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/video/why-corporations-are-increasingly-waving-the-pride-flag-1561915423/|title=Why corporations are increasingly waving the Pride flag|website=PBS Newshour}}</ref> NPR to discuss President Obama's record on LBGT issues,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/06/03/136921783/presidents-record-on-lgbt-issues-gets-mixed-reviews|title=President's Record On LGBT Issues Gets Mixed Reviews|website=NPR.org|date=3 June 2011 |language=en|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref> WNYC to discuss the CDC's decision to under report national HIV transmission rates,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/76957-aids-activists-and-researchers-gather-at-international-conference/|title=AIDS Activists and Researchers Gather at International Conference {{!}} WNYC {{!}} New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News|website=WNYC|language=en|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref> in the documentary ''Sex in an Epidemic'' tracing the impact of AIDS on the gay community,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2010/film/reviews/sex-in-an-epidemic-1117943092/|title=Sex in an Epidemic|last=Scheib|first=Ronnie|date=June 29, 2010|work=Variety}}</ref> on GRITtv with Laura Flanders to discuss GetEQUAL's activism,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd19yu|title=GRITtv: New Kind of Activism|website=Daily Motion|date=22 April 2010 }}</ref> Democracy Now to discuss NY's Marriage Equality Bill,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/27/is_new_york_equal_marriage_bill|title=NY Passes Historic Marriage Equality Bill; Is It a Sign the GOP Aims to Leverage Gay Support in 2012?|work=Democracy Now}}</ref> LogoTV's #WORLDAIDSDAY Facebook Live Panel hosting a discussion with Guy Anthony, Kia LaBeija, and Zachary Barnett,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.logotv.com/video-clips/avwjyh/logo-news--worldaidsday-facebook-live-panel|title=#WORLDAIDSDAY FACEBOOK LIVE PANEL|date=December 1, 2017|work=LOGO TV|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125073925/http://www.logotv.com/video-clips/avwjyh/logo-news--worldaidsday-facebook-live-panel|url-status=dead}}</ref> BRIC Arts Media with Ashley C. Ford to discuss mental health, race, sexuality, and gender identity,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://1world1family.me/what-can-we-build-in-2018/|title=What Can We Build in 2018? – 3 Conversations on Mental Health, Representation, and Family|website=1 World One Me|date=23 January 2018 }}</ref> Barnard Center for Research on Women's webseries on marriage, inequality, and violence,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bcrw.barnard.edu/marriage-institutes-inequality-and-violence-lessons-for-queer-and-trans-liberation-movements/|title=Marriage Institutes Inequality and Violence: Lessons for Queer and Trans Liberation Movements|website=Barnard Center for Research on Women|date=29 September 2016 }}</ref> 94.1 KPFA to discuss the evolution of the queer mainstream beyond marriage equality,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://kpfa.org/episode/92989/|title=Queer Voices: Beyond The Queer Mainstream – Beyond Gay Marriage and the Mainstream Gay Movement|date=June 30, 2013|work=94.1 KPFA}}</ref> SiriusXM Urbanview Town Hall hosted by Kelly Kinkaid to discuss supporting Black men living with HIV,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDaSBe_41vg|title=SiriusXM Urbanview Town Hall: Supporting our Brothers Hosted by Kelly Kinkaid|date=June 1, 2018|website=Youtube}}</ref> Making Contact on a panel discussion titled The Color of AIDS,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.radioproject.org/2007/11/the-color-of-aids-bringing-risk-up-to-date/|title=The Color of AIDS: Bringing "Risk" Up to Date|date=November 28, 2007|work=Making Contact}}</ref> CounterSpin to discuss NC Amendment 1,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://fair.org/counterspin/kenyon-farrow-on-nc-amendment-1-nada-alwadi-on-bahrain/|title=Kenyon Farrow on NC Amendment 1|date=May 18, 2012|work=CounterSpin}}</ref> and in the documentary ''Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8485248/|title=Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock (|website=IMDB}}</ref> an investigation into the life and death of experimental choreographer Ed Mock.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/13235772/dancer-ed-mocks-unstoppable-feat-chronicled-in-new-documentary|title=Dancer Ed Mock's 'Unstoppable Feat' Chronicled in New Documentary|date=2017-05-18|website=KQED|language=en-us|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref>
== Accolades == thumb|Farrow after his keynote address at the Left Forum in 2019
In 2021, POZ Magazine named Farrow to its POZ 100 list to honor his work as an HIV activist.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-11-15|title=The POZ 100 D-K|url=https://www.poz.com/article/2021-poz-100-d-k|access-date=2021-11-15|website=POZ|language=en}}</ref> In 2008, Farrow was listed among ''Out'' magazine's Out 100.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.poz.com/article/POZ-100-2011-26to50-21419-6728|title=The POZ 100: 26 to 50|date=November 21, 2011|work=POZ Magazine}}</ref> Two years later, ''The Advocate'' named him one of the "40 Under 40" LGBT Leaders in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.advocate.com/print-issue/cover-stories/2010/04/07/forty-under-40?page=0,1|title=2010 40 Under 40, 2010 40 Under 40|date=April 7, 2010|work=The Advocate}}</ref> Black Entertainment Television included him among "Modern Black History Heroes" in 2011,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYYWlZsvv2k|title=Kenyon Farrow--BET Modern Black History Hero 2011|website=Youtube|date=17 February 2011 }}</ref> and he was one of The Root's 20 Black LGBT Movers and Shakers for 2012.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theroot.com/20-black-lgbt-movers-and-shakers-1790868236|title=20 Black LGBT Movers and Shakers|last=Weaver|first=Joshua|date=June 22, 2012|work=The Root}}</ref>
Farrow also received the Community Activist award at Chicago Black Pride's Esteem Awards in 2013,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Esteem-Awards-honor-25/43622.html|title=Esteem Awards honor 25 - Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News Archive|website=Windy City Times|date=8 July 2013 |access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref> was awarded the 2016 Sexual Freedom Award by the Woodhull Institute,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.woodhullfoundation.org/our-work/the-vicki-sexual-freedom-awards/vicki-award-recipient-list/|title=Vicki Award Recipient List|website=Woodhull Freedom Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-28|archive-date=2021-07-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722213904/https://www.woodhullfoundation.org/our-work/the-vicki-sexual-freedom-awards/vicki-award-recipient-list/|url-status=dead}}</ref> was an honoree of Black, Gifted & Whole Foundation's 2017 Gala,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackgiftedwhole.org/2017-gala|title=Won't You Celebrate With Us?|website=Black, Gifted, and Whole}}</ref> and received The Red Door Foundation's 2019 Flame Thrower Award at its 7th Annual Red Gala.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.trdfoundation.com/new-page-3-1|title=7th|title=7th Annual Red Gala|website=The Red Door Foundation}}{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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