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Gregory B. Lewis, Black-Whe Differenc Attus toward Homosexualy and Gay Rights, The Public Opn Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Sprg, 2003), pp. 59-78

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CNCHG THE NUMBERS ON BLACKS' VIEWS ON GAYS

When the veteran NBA player Jason Colls me out, an old narrative about black antigay sentiment was rurrected. But is te? * blacks on gay *

Jason Colls, a journeyman NBA center, me out as gay this week the pag of Sports Illtrated. When Jason Colls, a journeyman NBA center, announced that he was gay, many mentators who appld his disclosure still nodd to the ia of heightened opposn to gay rights among black people.

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"The hyper-mascule ials forced upon young black boys be wh the homophobia of the black church to create a perfect storm of shame and secrecy, " Rob Smh wrote at Salon, as he tailed his trmatic attempt to e out to his mother.

"What mak the NBA unique is that almost 80 percent of the players are black, and black men are notor homophob when to one of their own. "Homophobia the black muny — ed, even among the lears of the civil rights movement of the 1960s — was some of the most vilent and stubborn of all, and there are still some who rent the equatn of the gay rights movement wh their stggle, " wrote Charl P. "How do you measure 'vilent' homophobia vers 'regular' homophobia?

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" med Greg Lewis, a polil scientist at Geia State Universy who has published several studi on the views of blacks and wh on homosexualy. I chatted wh Lewis today about what the polls might tell about black views on homosexualy.

And as he cnched some numbers, he found that black opn on gays — to the extent that there's a "black opn" on anythg — isn't really easy to fe.

You've got to hold a bunch of disparate ias your head at once; Lewis found that black folks are ls likely than whe people to believe that homosexualy is "not wrong at all" (25 percent to 40 percent). Yet blacks have historilly been more likely to support nondiscrimatn iativ for gay people. The "black church, " long held up as the vector for black opposn to homosexualy, clus many outspoken clergy members who have been stmental to same-sex marriage iativ.

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And spe the ntentn that the NBA is a haven of notorly antigay black men, the profsnal hoops universe has been nearly uniformly supportive of Colls' cisn to e out.

) Last year, NPR's Corey Da spoke to All Thgs Consired's Audie Cornish jt after Print Obama's announcement to put the shiftg black support on gay marriage to ntext. "A Pew rearch poll recently showed that black opposn to gay marriage is now down to 49 percent om 2004 when was at 67 percent, " he said. And obvly then we had the electn of Print Obama, and sce then, more young voters have e to the electorate who are more open to gay rights.

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And I'm gay, " Colls famoly wrote his g-out say.

Black gay love is revolutnary.

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