There has been much ado about the newfound notn of “black gay privilege.” In numero tweets, blogs, and a certa Huffgton Post article, has been articulated as a special benef enjoyed by black gay men. This “privilege”— produced by whe anxiety and whe supremacy—supposedly enabl to eva the tradnal enomic stggl experienced by straight black men.
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THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA
It is not the gay Black person who be an stment of a whe supremacist attack on Black masculy. It is the Black homophobe. * gay black supremacy *
And Harriet as a young Black girl g to terms wh her queer inty, Hazzard, now 31, said would have been transformatnal to learn about change-makers who played a role both gay liberatn and the Black Freedom might have learned nam like Audre Lor, a Black lbian poet and activist who dited her life and work to addrsg social jtic, and Marsha P. Johnson, a transgenr activist who was a proment figure of the 1969 Stonewall rts and the gay rights movement spired. “I didn’t learn anythg about the gay liberatn movement, Stonewall, any of that, “ Hazzard said.
THE TTH ABOUT BLACK GAY PRIVILEGE
* gay black supremacy *
“People that were both Black and gay; people that were mted to queer liberatn as well as Black liberatn; people that saw those two thgs as nnected. “Edutn is a pathway to margalized muni’ sense of empowerment bee plac wh a historil genealogy that whe supremacy says we’re not a part of, ” said Story, who also -hosts the podst “Strange F: Mgs on Polics, Pop Culture, and Black Gay Life. ” Acrdg to the New York Tim, Bentley was one of the bt-known Black entertaers the the end of her life, Bentley married a man, nied that she was gay and exprsed regret for her drag performanc, Story said, “but that, to me, was no doubt om the ensug prsure of homophobia and all of those thgs.
”Bayard Rt (1912-1987)Return to menuGay civil rights activistBayard Rt is regnized as one of the key lears of the civil rights movement. But as an openly gay man, Rt faced discrimatn of his own while fightg for the rights of January 1953, he was arrted on a “morals charge” after police officers ught him engaged wh two other men a parked r Pasana, Calif. The nvictn, which was often ed to target gay people, forced Rt to register as a sex offenr and nearly railed his reer as a civil rights activist.
THE ‘GAY AGENDA,’ EXPLAED
The roots of anti-gay attus lay whe supremacy. * gay black supremacy *
“He was a proment gay man durg the civil rights movement when there was no space to talk about lbian and gay issu, ” said Karsonya Whehead, an associate profsor of munitn and Ain and Ain Amerin Studi at Loyola Universy years, Rt’s arrt siled him the civil rights movement.
Samson/Tnk ArchiveWhy n’t straight men stop obssg about gay people? Maybe they should terrogate their own prient terts other people’s love, get at the root and figure out why the ia of male timacy ril the past few weeks, several rappers have ma sensive — or full-on homophobic — statements about gay people. Fend DaBaby, sayg that gay people had gone om beg bullied to dog the bullyg, simply bee they had mand acuntabily om DaBaby, urgg him to apologize and phg mic ftivals to drop him om their lps.
THE GAY SUPREMACY
About a week after DaBaby’s rant, Boosie Badazz, a hip-hop artist who me up the 1990s, went after Lil Nas X, one of the rare rappers who are openly, unapologetilly, explosns-of-glter gay, threateng to asslt me say first that the untry has quickly evolved on the acceptance of gayns, and that clus an evolutn among Black people. But as acceptance and visibily rise, those the mory who feel threatened by gay people have grown lour. They talk apolyptic terms about a “gay agenda” sted to rec throngs to a gay “liftyle.