The Gay Communy’s Obssn Wh Stat and Looks Has Huge Mental Health Costs | Them

Contents:

• NO ASIANS, NO BLACK PEOPLE. WHY DO GAY PEOPLE TOLERATE BLATANT RACISM?
• THE GAY COMMUNY’S OBSSN WH STAT AND LOOKS HAS HUGE MENTAL HEALTH COSTS
• LGBTQ VENU ACCED OF EXTREME RACISM UK’S ‘GAY CAPAL OF THE NORTH’
• FL PAPER: GAY GOP REP HAS HISTORY OF RACISM, VLENCE

NO ASIANS, NO BLACK PEOPLE. WHY DO GAY PEOPLE TOLERATE BLATANT RACISM?

But another far more pernic reason is that the LGBT world revolv around whe gay men to the excln of others. “The muny is traed to accept a whe, ‘masc’, mcled gay man and the rt of are not really accepted or ‘one of their own’.

” It’s not the dividual he blam, but beg ndned by a muny that venerat the “sexual image of a whe gay man”. Acrdg to rearch by FS magaze, an astonishg 80% of black men, 79% of Asian men and 75% of south Asian men have experienced racism on the gay manifts self numero ways.

“On apps like Grdr, ” wr Matthew Rodriguez, “gay men brandish their racial datg preferenc wh all the same unapologetic bravado that straight men rerve for their favoure baseball team.

THE GAY COMMUNY’S OBSSN WH STAT AND LOOKS HAS HUGE MENTAL HEALTH COSTS

Michel, a south Asian man, tells me of beg turned away bee “you don’t look gay”, and beg lled a “dirty Paki”.

Dean stopped buyg mastream gay magaz two years ago. “The only time they would wre about people of lour is when they had done somethg homophobic, ” he says. “The gay media is pletely whewashed.

LGBTQ VENU ACCED OF EXTREME RACISM UK’S ‘GAY CAPAL OF THE NORTH’

”There has been posive change recent months, one leadg black gay journalist tells me, but only bee of the work of ethnic mory LGBT dividuals “holdg magaz to acunt, settg up their own nights across the scene” and g social media, blogs, podsts and boytts to force LGBT people are much more likely than heterosexuals to suffer om mental distrs, the level is even higher among ethnic mori.

Mlims are portrayed as an existential threat to gay people, particularly after Orlando. This week, Milo Yiannopolo – a gay attentn-seeker who has bee an in of the US far right – was at the centre of a media storm bee a platform to speak at his old school was whdrawn. In the Netherlands, the anti-immigrant right was led by a gay man, Pim Fortuyn, until his assassatn.

In France, reportedly a third of married gay upl support the far-right Natnal stggle agast racism has, of urse, to be led by people of lour who suffer the nsequenc – such as Black Out UK, which fights for a platform for black gay men, and Media Diversified, which mpaigns for mory reprentatn the media. But unls whe LGBT people – who the official gay scene venerat – listen to the voic of those who are siled, ltle will opprsed yourself do not mean you are pable of opprsg others: far om . But what Pachankis and his lleagu began to notice their work was that gay and bisexual men reported feelg much of their strs g om their peers, or what a new study led by Pachankis lls tra-mory strs.

FL PAPER: GAY GOP REP HAS HISTORY OF RACISM, VLENCE

And is the most signifint of s kd to exame muny strsors among gay and bisexual fdgs reveal what many the muny know all too well: that gay and bisexual men n be pretty harsh wh one another and wh ourselv tryg to measure up. Spoke to Pachankis about the leadg strsors that origate wh the muny, their effects on mental and physil health, and how gay and bisexual men might better support one another and venture to move forward were the major prsur you found affectg the mental health of gay and bisexual men?