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Earnest Winborne is a 35-year veteran television producer and director. In 2010, he launched NoMoreDownLow.TV - an entertainment news show dedicated to speaking the truth and dispelling the negative stereotypes of same gender loving people of color and their allies.

Winborne's career path has led him to work with television's biggest stars on the most successful programs in the nation’s top television markets. His career began with stints at local television affiliates in Richmond, Baltimore, Boston and Washington, D.C. His unique career path has allowed him to receive producer credits on a wide variety of television formats, ranging from live talk shows, news and public affairs programs, documentaries, telethons, lifestyle and entertainment magazines, concerts, dance shows and other music specials.

He has also worked as an associate producer with The Oprah Winfrey Show in Chicago and as producer and field director for The View in New York. For the better part of the last 15 years, Winborne has covered the red-carpet events of Hollywood as a field producer/director for entertainment news magazines Extra, Access Hollywood and E! News.

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Hot Guys With Guns and Sexy Lesbian Vampires Highlight Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival (VIDEO)

(3) Comments | Posted March 30, 2013 | 9:00 AM

Outfest, the Los Angeles-based organization dedicated to nurturing, showcasing and protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) films, presented the Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival on March 22 and 23. Some of the highlights included the soon-to-be-released action comedy Hot Guys With Guns (written and directed by Doug...

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The New Scandal at the Black Cable Networks: No LGBT Characters

(33) Comments | Posted March 15, 2013 | 3:58 PM

I got all choked up watching the NAACP Image awards a few weeks ago. For me, seeing Diahann Carroll present the President's Award to Kerry Washington took me back to why I fell in love with this business and why I am blessed to be celebrating 36-years as a television...

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Black Angelenos Take Sides in Chick-fil-A Controversy (VIDEO)

(114) Comments | Posted August 9, 2012 | 2:06 PM

Growing up in the South (Virginia, specifically), Sunday just wasn't Sunday without my grandmother's Southern fried chicken. And I'm here to tell you that it was truly, truly good. Colonel Sanders had nothing on Mattie Winborne. And the only debate that took place around her dinner table was over who...

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Beyond the Gay White Male: The 2012 Queer People of Color Conference (VIDEO)

(74) Comments | Posted April 12, 2012 | 6:07 PM

The LGBT community is often criticized for setting an agenda that is taken largely from a gay white male perspective. For instance, marriage equality is currently front and center, but for some same-gender-loving people of color, marriage is not necessarily a top priority. More pressing for us may be issues...

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Outfest: 'The Skinny' on LGBT People of Color in Film (VIDEO)

(1) Comments | Posted April 4, 2012 | 4:31 PM

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The truth is that in order to really advance the LGBT movement, we need to start seeing more LGBT people of color out in the community. Outfest has been a leader in showcasing LGBT people of color in front...

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The Black Gay Community Speaks Out on the Trayvon Martin Killing (VIDEO)

(7) Comments | Posted March 29, 2012 | 1:43 PM

Trayvon Martin was on everyone's minds at the ninth annual Outfest Fusion: LGBT People of Color Film Festival in Hollywood. At this year's event, director Lee Daniels was on hand to honor Noah's Arc creator Patrik-Ian Polk, who earlier spoke out about the unfolding tragedy surrounding 17-year-old...

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The Down Low As the New Twinkie Defense? (VIDEO)

(10) Comments | Posted March 14, 2012 | 2:27 PM

The savage, anti-gay beating of Brandon White was not only caught on tape; the video went viral. The 20-year-old victim did not initially report it, out of fear of retaliation. Then, at one point, reports surfaced that the attackers may have been "on the down low" and that the attack...

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The Down Low Made Me Do It!

(23) Comments | Posted October 21, 2011 | 1:13 AM

As a black man, I've been very blessed to have an amazing career working as a producer in television. For more than three decades, I have worked for some of the biggest names on some of the most popular shows in television history. I've seen it all -- from producing...

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