Are Whe Gay Men Stealg 'Culture' From Black Women? : NPR

Contents:

• ARE WHE GAY MEN STEALG 'CULTURE' FROM BLACK WOMEN?
• DEAR BLACK WOMEN: WHE GAYS ARE YOUR ALLI, SO DON'T PH US AWAY
• WHAT IT'S LIKE BEG A BLACK, GAY WOMAN IN AMERI
• A WHE GAY MAN AND A BLACK WOMAN HUG IT OUT

ARE WHE GAY MEN STEALG 'CULTURE' FROM BLACK WOMEN?

Last week, Time published a piece by a young wrer named Sierra Mannie lled "Dear Whe Gays: Stop Stealg Black Female Culture.

" In the piece, Mannie argu that some gay, whe men have appropriated black, female culture.

DEAR BLACK WOMEN: WHE GAYS ARE YOUR ALLI, SO DON'T PH US AWAY

She kd of brought up some thgs about gay men not beg - not havg to disclose their sexualy a way that black women, you know - you see we're black, you n't... And The Advote beg a gay-oriented Y, y, a gay news magaze.

She pots out that, you know, between the pol of outsir solidary, which, you know, gay men and black women have some experienc of beg margalized mon, even if they're not intil, and on the other end the kd of opprsn Olympics, which people say, no, I have much worse than you; therefore, you know, you n't talk to me, there's a mon - there's a middle ground where, you know, a ltle mutual support might be Was the piece eful any way, Trey? But I've seen a lot of really tertg - I don't want to say phback, but reply, pecially - I have a lot of gay iends who are terracial relatnships, and the nversatn on their Facebook pag has been very Intertg.

WHAT IT'S LIKE BEG A BLACK, GAY WOMAN IN AMERI

And that has to do a ltle b wh the edg bee on one end, she's talkg about appropriatn and whe, gay men allegedly stealg - whe, gay men stealg om black femal. And that's somethg to, you know, as a gay, black man, I see gay, black, male culture beg, like, bten all the time. And her se, she jt typilly wants to be rpected and, you know, be treated as an dividual, which is know, 'e there are some whe, gay men who say - I thk Perez Hilton said this a uple months ago on Twter, that he - si, he is a black woman.

And, you know, there are certa, whe, gay men that say that. It's like, hontly - and there was a Time rponse piece on there om a whe, gay guy who said, whe, gay men, as a group, uld be the tt iends black women n have Amerin society.

- bee, to be hont, a lot of whe, gay men don't clu black, gay men.

A WHE GAY MAN AND A BLACK WOMAN HUG IT OUT

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