Denholm Spurr on how he beme homels after g out to his parents and rorted to sex work gay snas to stay off the streets.
Contents:
- 'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
- YOUNG, BLACK, GAY AND HOMELS, TYRON JACKSON ED TO THK HE DIDN’T MATTER. NOW HIS WORK SPEAKS FOR SELF
- INVISIBLE NO MORE: BLACK GAY MEN OVER 50 ARE FDG THE SILVER LG
- WHEN I WAS HOMELS, I SOLD MY BODY GAY SNAS TO SURVIVE
- REPORT SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON LIV OF HOMELS GAY YOUTH
'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
Multihyphenate filmmaker Elegance Bratton said his latt project, “The Inspectn,” about a gay homels Black man who jos the Mar, hs pecially * gay black homeless *
While the challeng of intifyg and ntactg youth experiencg homelsns make difficult to tablish the exact prevalence of LGBTQ youth homelsns, is timated that lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth make up 7-9% of the general populatn (Wilson, Cooper, Kastanis, & Nezhad, 2014) but 29% of youth experiencg homelsns (Choi et al., 2015).
1 It is important to note that due to a failure to llect nuanced sexual orientatn and genr inty data many large-sle surveys, much of the prev rearch on LGBTQ youth actually only vers those who are lbian, gay, or bisexual. In this report, fdgs that only apply to lbian, gay, or bisexual youth will be noted wh the acronym LGB and fdgs which apply to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, or qutng youth will be noted wh acronym LGBTQ. 46) pared to gay/lbian youth.
However, rearch om the Fay Acceptance Project shows that many parents reject their child’s LGBTQ inty bee they fear the homophobia and transphobia their child may experience society (Substance Abe and Mental Health Servic Admistratn, 2014).
YOUNG, BLACK, GAY AND HOMELS, TYRON JACKSON ED TO THK HE DIDN’T MATTER. NOW HIS WORK SPEAKS FOR SELF
Unlike other eply entrenched social problems such as racism, homophobia, biphobia, or transphobia, homelsns has a ncrete, evince-based solutn: hog. The Trevor Project is the world’s largt suici preventn and crisis terventn anizatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, & qutng (LGBTQ) young people. Servg our youth 2015: The needs and experienc of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng youth experiencg homelsns.
Servg our youth: Fdgs om a natnal survey of service provirs workg wh lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr youth who are homels or at risk of beg homels. Journal of Gay & Lbian Social Servic, 29(2), 182-200. No Past nor Current Hog Instabily n = 24, 874 (%)Past Hog Instabilyn = 9, 666 (%) Currently Homelsn = 219 (%)Race / EthnicyAI/AN328 (1)244 (3)14 (7)AAPI1, 605 (7)297 (3)3 (1)Black1, 235 (5)469 (5)18 (8)Latx3, 550 (15)1, 304 (14)23 (11)Multiracial3, 855 (16)2, 078 (22)49 (24)Whe13, 430 (56)4, 850 (52)99 (48)Sexual IntyStraight / Heterosexual273 (1)92 (1)4 (2)Gay or Lbian7, 172 (29)2, 517 (26)42 (19)Bisexual9, 402 (38)3, 123 (32)77(36)Queer2, 966 (12)1, 237 (13)25 (12)Pansexual4, 000 (16)2, 335 (24)62 (29)Qutng886 (4)303(3)6 (3)Genr IntyCisgenr boy3, 500 (14)1, 025 (11)21 (10)Cisgenr girl10, 161 (41)2, 973 (31)63 (30)Transgenr girl571 (2)339(4)13 (6)Transgenr boy2, 112 (9)1, 331 (14)36 (17)Nonbary5, 737 (23)3, 028 (32)65 (31)Genr Qutng 2, 429 (10)769(8)14 (7)Cens RegnNortheast4, 073 (16)1, 312 (14)27 (12)South8, 732 (35)3, 517 (36)72 (33)Midwt5, 709 (23)2, 258 (23)40 (18)Wt6, 360 (26)2, 579 (27)80 (36)Age13 – 1814, 716 (59)4, 882 (50)73 (33)18 – 2410, 158 (41)4, 784 (49)146 (67).
Multihyphenate filmmaker Elegance Bratton said his latt project, “The Inspectn, ” about a gay homels Black man who jos the Mar, hs pecially close to home after he was kicked out as a teenager for beg gay and spent a livg on the streets. The film, which is loosely based on Bratton’s life, foc on the challeng the ma character, Ellis French, experienc as a young gay Black man durg the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” era. The policy, which was effect between 1994 and 2011, banned gay and lbian service members om servg openly the armed forc.
INVISIBLE NO MORE: BLACK GAY MEN OVER 50 ARE FDG THE SILVER LG
’” He add, “I n see her havg a very plited sense of pri over all of this, even if didn’t move her to change her stance around homosexualy. "A24Bratton said he tapped Unn for the role of his homophobic mother bee of Unn’s “artistry, activism, and she’s also a superstar that everyone the world knows.
One afternoon, as he was walkg om his Santa Ana motel room to the Market Place Tt for his job at Rub’s, a group of young, whe high school kids beat him up, llg him racial and homophobic slurs. (Courty of TyRon Jackson) One of the reasons Jackson started his anizatn back 2008 was bee as a relatively unknown Black gay man, he saw that many didn’t tst him. He unrstood that when whe athlet me to town and did the same kd of muny service, they would be wrten up the prs as a the same time, he experienced people offerg to volunteer or donate s of water, but backg out last mute after they read about him and learned that he was gay.
He realized he uldn’t be slowed down by volunteers flakg out due to homophobia. Gay Orange County pageant and won. “And if someone was stg next to a Black person or a gay person or a trans person, they were able to tell them that they matter.
WHEN I WAS HOMELS, I SOLD MY BODY GAY SNAS TO SURVIVE
“That’s jt nasty, ” they would mutter about the femme gay man stg at the b stop. In fact, most of the murrs have been of Black trans women, Miller is a Black gay man livg Atlanta, Geia.
It is believed that the reason he was targeted is bee Julian is visibly gay. A 14-year-old boy murred by his 53-year-old father for beg gay.
Acrdg to Gvanni’s former foster mother, his father would “rather have a ad son than a gay son. Many rpond wh stori of terror — parents who chased them out of their home wh a knife, or threatened to “beat the gay out of them. Bee the realy is that s like those of Candace Towns, Julian Miller, and Gvanni Melton are not unmon, and is those beliefs that lead to Black queer and trans the past two weeks, a Black trans woman has been murred, a Black gay man was shot and is currently reverg, and a 14 year old Black boy was murred.
REPORT SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON LIV OF HOMELS GAY YOUTH
But his story would not mirror those of his iends whom he laid to rt, stead, would bee the impet he need to -create “The Silver Lg Project, ” a group that would impact his life and the liv of Black gay men livg wh HIV, particularly those over 50 who are often renred visible the broar Black gay, the Director of Programs at Thrive SS, an Atlanta-based non-prof anizatn dited to providg support to Black gay/bisexual men livg wh HIV, rells the moment he was lled to actn by Thrive SS Executive Director, Larry Walker, to create a space that reflected his experience as an olr Black gay man livg wh HIV. It was their first step towards creasg the visibily of Black gay men livg wh HIV over 50 and ensurg they ntued to have a sense of muny.
Lonels is a topic that often up for Black gay men of any age but is often tensified for men over 50.
Bridgg the gap between the Obas and younger Black gay men is a key iative for “The Silver Lg Project’s” immediate future, pecially the face of ageism and risg HIV diagnos Metro Atlanta. Reid’s advice to young Black gay men who may wre off men his age group is “to keep on livg. Two of the mentors have a romantic history, and one of them unwtgly gets assigned to a boy who is gay, prentg somethg of a plex dynamic as the ruals ntue at a remote mp.