“I Can’t Be Racist, I’m Gay” Explorg Queer Whe Men’s Views on Race and Racism on JSTOR

Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• WHE GAY MEN ARE HRG OUR PROGRS AS A QUEER COMMUNY
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• HERE'S ONE BTAL TTH EVERY WHE GAY MAN NEEDS TO HEAR
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• PENIS SIZE AND PREFERRED SEXUAL ROL AMONG GAY MEN
• HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. ”No Jtice, No Pri and Black Liv Matter–affiliated groups reprised the prott ci across the untry throughout the Capal Pri nontatn and others like have laid bare a growg chasm wh the LGBTQ+ muny between olr activists and younger; between gay whe cisgenr men who feel like they n celebrate post-marriage equaly and those who fear for their liv unr a Tmp admistratn; between those whose biggt stumblg block life is beg gay and those who feel their eedom is ntgent not only on LGBTQ+ rights but also on issu like police reform, reproductive rights, and enomic equaly.

”But as dtups ed by groups like No Jtice, No Pri show — as well as other velopments, like the addn of a brown stripe to Philalphia’s LGBTQ pri flag; and scuffl over the cln of Israeli flags at monstratns — that not everyone is happy wh the LGBTQ+ movement’s foc on tersectnaly, which has foreground discsns of privilege, police btaly, sexism, racism, and anti-trans BeckSome gay whe cisgenr men are startg to tune out. “You have gay whe men who are no longer volved activism or muny work bee they jt get shouted down by mory activists who want to racialize everythg, ” said Jamie Kirchick, a right-leang journalist and visg fellow at the Brookgs Instutn. “Whe gay man has bee an ephet, ” he the amic fn of tersectnaly may be narrow, s meang has broaned as s age has spread across var social jtice movements.

WHE GAY MEN ARE HRG OUR PROGRS AS A QUEER COMMUNY

Not only is ed as shorthand to talk about work between alns, has also e to embody the ia that, as wh the experience of inty, the sourc of opprsn — sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism — are ternnected. “I thk what [the foc on tersectnaly] do is brg everyone to rally around our victimhood, and that, fundamentally, is negative, ” said Jimmy LaSalvia, now a polil pennt who -found gay Republin group the Log Cab Republins. ”Kirchick said tersectnaly has ma the work of some LGBTQ+ anizatns herent, cg groups like Gays Agast Guns, which spng up after the Pulse massacre Orlando last year.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

But even some progrsive gay whe men say they feel alienated om a movement they see beg more radil, particularly onle, where the tenor of nversatn is often uncivil. ”But Olson, who is gay and married, add that the ternal nflict the LGBTQ+ movement is currently experiencg — and the drop-off participatn om those at the top — was to be expected after marriage equaly.

Uned by the Vietnam War, was an “credible era of dialogue” between social-jtice groups of starkly different Gay Liberatn Front marched wh the Black Panthers and participated antiwar monstratns. The movement was not only far more centralized than today, when several large LGBTQ+ advocy anizatns wh lots of money generally set the agenda; was stacked wh crics of palism, cludg munists like Harry Hay, who -found early homophile anizatn the Mattache Society.

” He noted that AIDS activism the 1980s and 1990s — which gay men and their alli chaed themselv to ernment buildgs and performed die-s on the streets of major ci — was hardly pole. ” said Moore, who lled on LGBTQ anizatns to endorse Black Liv Matter on Alli, Our SelvNot all gay whe cisgenr men see the LGBTQ+ movement’s tersectnal turn a negative light. Brian Sims said his experience as a gay whe cisgenr man — and the discrimatn he has faced on acunt of his sexual orientatn — has ma him more sympathetic to the plight of members of the muny who are more disenanchised than he is.

HERE'S ONE BTAL TTH EVERY WHE GAY MAN NEEDS TO HEAR

”Sims said seemed obv to him that sexism, racism, transphobia, ableism, and homophobia e om the same place, and said that the far-right polics of the Tmp admistratn have ma tersectnaly all the more important. To do this, gay whe cisgenr men have to not only let their guard down and listen but also acknowledge the relative power they wield and e to elevate those lower down who have been historilly margalized. “Whe cisgenr gay men have to acknowledge that they have a disproportnate amount of power the movement that has acced to them for historil reasons that are wrong.

” It is, after all, psychologilly taxg for a gay whe cisgenr man who got bullied high school for his sexual orientatn and n still be fired for 28 stat to hear about the privilege he has as a whe man. Or will e to be unrstood as a force that agmented queer polics and alienated gay whe cisgenr men, long-nsired that movement’s most powerful group?

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23.

Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.

PENIS SIZE AND PREFERRED SEXUAL ROL AMONG GAY MEN

When to the morn fight for equal rights, 's imperative that we remd our straight unterparts that we were born this whe men were born gay, but they were also raised and socialized as whe men — the social group vted wh the most privilege Ameri.

HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM

But here's the btal tth: The social privilege of whens still affords them a disproportnate amount of power the gay privilege elevat whe, gay men above men of lor. If we hope to eradite racism wh the gay muny, whe gay men mt acknowledge their privilege — and the way 's ed, ways subtle and not, to nigrate a Lato gay man, I know firsthand that my sk lor affects how I teract wh the larger muny.

But perhaps the most sual and most mon place mory gays experience racism is teractns on apps like Grdr, which to some gree have replaced gay bars as a nex for datg and hookups. Acrdg to a 2012 study, jt over 75% of young, gay men have ed Grdr to fd sexual apps like Grdr, gay men brandish their racial datg preferenc wh the same unapologetic bravado that straight men rerve for their favore baseball DouchebagsofGrdrLike this man who jt wants to "keep whe or Lat.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

"Sexual racism is closely associated wh generic racist attus, which challeng the ia of racial attractn as solely a matter of preference, " the rearchers Douchebags of GrdrYou may be born gay and whe, but you were not born perceivg Asian or black men as unattractive — or wantg to keep any racial group out of your bedroom, for that matter. Faced wh nstant msag that signal gay men of lor are ls valuable than their whe peers, black and brown men experience ternalized racism, creased self-teem and psychologil distrs, rearchers have found.

Acrdg to the study, 84% of gay and bisexual men of lor experienced racism the gay muny, and 77% of those men experienced strs as a Mic/Giphy"Our fdgs highlight that sexual racism — as an exprsn of racism generally — is an ongog issue for men who seek out other men onle, and that men engage a range of strategi for migatg the negative effects of racial prejudice this doma, " the rearchers those who want to simplify the search for a patible partner, rather than e language that am your sir acrdg to racial tegori — no this, no that — ame your sir around specific acts and quali you like. Sunday’s “Great Midwtern Trendkill” event wasn’t the first time out gay pro wrtler AC Mack stepped to a Naptown All-Pro Wrtlg rg, but will be his last.

He is an out gay Black man the South who thrived, buildg human nnectns whose strength manifted the emotnal rponse by the ACTION fanbase when he announced he was leavg -rg petn last month.