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WHY ARE THERE GAY WOMEN?
Before "don't ask, don't tell" was officially repealed for gay, lbian, and bisexual ary personnel 2011, a photo of a male Mare drag uld have land him hot water. "Lbian, gay, and bisexual ary personnel had been servg our untry for s whout receivg equal protectn, while transgenr troops are still prohibed om servg openly. "As a gay man, I n relate to what is still the opprsive stigma of homosexualy.
“Black women often get read as butch whether they are butch or not, ” thor Roxane Gay told The New York Tim.
“People tend to assume if you’re a black butch, you’re a stud and that’s , ” Gay said, addg that that’s unte. Beg gay Greensboro, North Carola, is pretty simple: The LGBT muny is small, so people like who they like, explaed Rob, a 29-year-old black lbian who was taken aback when she reloted to Atlanta a few years ago. Generatns later, many black lbians ntue to closely mirror cisgenr men, even down to their homophobia, said Washgton, D.