No Asians, no black people. Why do gay people tolerate blatant racism? | Owen Jon | The Guardian

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Rearchers are fdg that racism, petn, and a fixatn on sex wh the gay and bi muny are drivg anxiety and prsn.

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

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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’.

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” 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.

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“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”.

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“The only time they would wre about people of lour is when they had done somethg homophobic, ” he says.

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“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. Mlims are portrayed as an existential threat to gay people, particularly after Orlando.

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