We promote unity among LGBT Black people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Latin American descent, their friends and families
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah
Director
As a co-founder, and now the Managing Director of UK Black Pride, it is safe to say that Phyll Opoku-Gyimah is one of the leading lights behind the amazing celebration of Black LGBT communities that we enjoy today.
A former volunteer for BLUK (Black Lesbians in the UK), Phyll uses her immense talents to support people within the Black LGBT community who either feel vulnerable or desperate to burst out of themselves and demonstrate pride in their ethnicity and sexuality.
Phyll has worked tirelessly to bring together LGBT activists, artists, volunteers and supporters from within the LGBT community and beyond to support UK Black Pride and other such events. Phyll’s voluntary endeavours led her to be nominated as Woman of the Year at the Black LGBT Community Awards 2007.
A Civil Servant by profession, Phyll is currently on secondment to the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Trade Union where she is trailblazing as the only Black female lead negotiator within the Law and Justice bargaining areas.
Phyll’s commitment to workplace equality and social justice has secured her a seat on the TUC Race Relations Committee, in addition to a number of positions within PCS, her union, and PCS Proud, which is the representative voice for LGBT members within the civil service.
Phyll is a strong, very family-orientated Ghanaian African woman who understands the Twi and Fanti languages. This connects Phyll to her rich cultural heritage and enables her to charm all who orbit around her with her good natured warmth and fun. Phyll’s love of people is abundantly clear and enables her to bring together men and women to support a common goal that advocates for unity and equality.
As the visionary behind UK Black Pride it comes as no surprise that Phyll cites this quotation from Dr Maya Angelou as her maxim: “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
