Ahead of Manchter's Pri celebratns, 10 people tell VICE World News they have experienced racist abe and discrimatn and around the cy's Gay Village.
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?
Rearchers are fdg that racism, petn, and a fixatn on sex wh the gay and bi muny are drivg anxiety and prsn. * racism's gay *
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”.
THE GAY COMMUNY’S OBSSN WH STAT AND LOOKS HAS HUGE MENTAL HEALTH COSTS
* racism's gay *
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.
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.
LGBTQ VENU ACCED OF EXTREME RACISM UK’S ‘GAY CAPAL OF THE NORTH’
“The gay media is pletely whewashed.
”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.
FL PAPER: GAY GOP REP HAS HISTORY OF RACISM, VLENCE
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.