There has been much ado about the newfound notn of “black gay privilege.” In numero tweets, blogs, and a certa Huffgton Post article, has been articulated as a special benef enjoyed by black gay men. This “privilege”— produced by whe anxiety and whe supremacy—supposedly enabl to eva the tradnal enomic stggl experienced by straight black men.
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THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA
It is not the gay Black person who be an stment of a whe supremacist attack on Black masculy. It is the Black homophobe. * black supremacy gay *
And Harriet as a young Black girl g to terms wh her queer inty, Hazzard, now 31, said would have been transformatnal to learn about change-makers who played a role both gay liberatn and the Black Freedom might have learned nam like Audre Lor, a Black lbian poet and activist who dited her life and work to addrsg social jtic, and Marsha P.
Johnson, a transgenr activist who was a proment figure of the 1969 Stonewall rts and the gay rights movement spired. “I didn’t learn anythg about the gay liberatn movement, Stonewall, any of that, “ Hazzard said.
“People that were both Black and gay; people that were mted to queer liberatn as well as Black liberatn; people that saw those two thgs as nnected.
THE TTH ABOUT BLACK GAY PRIVILEGE
“Edutn is a pathway to margalized muni’ sense of empowerment bee plac wh a historil genealogy that whe supremacy says we’re not a part of, ” said Story, who also -hosts the podst “Strange F: Mgs on Polics, Pop Culture, and Black Gay Life. ” Acrdg to the New York Tim, Bentley was one of the bt-known Black entertaers the the end of her life, Bentley married a man, nied that she was gay and exprsed regret for her drag performanc, Story said, “but that, to me, was no doubt om the ensug prsure of homophobia and all of those thgs. ”Bayard Rt (1912-1987)Return to menuGay civil rights activistBayard Rt is regnized as one of the key lears of the civil rights movement.