How gay men jtify their racism on Grdr

Contents:

• NO ASIANS, NO BLACK PEOPLE. WHY DO GAY PEOPLE TOLERATE BLATANT RACISM?
• WHE GAY PRIVILEGE EXISTS ALL YEAR, BUT IS PARTICULARLY HURTFUL DURG PRI
• THE GAY COMMUNY’S OBSSN WH STAT AND LOOKS HAS HUGE MENTAL HEALTH COSTS
• THE TTH ABOUT RACISM THE GAY MUNY IS THAT 'S VERY TE
• DEALG WH RACISM THE GAY MUNY
• RACE RELATNS AND RACISM THE LGBTQ MUNY OF TORONTO: PERCEPTNS OF GAY AND QUEER SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIRS OF LOR

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

On gay datg apps like Grdr, many ers have profil that nta phras like “I don’t date Black men, ” or that claim they are “not attracted to Latos. Sce 2015 I’ve been studyg LGBTQ culture and gay life, and much of that time has been spent tryg to untangle and unrstand the tensns and prejudic wh gay culture.

WHE GAY PRIVILEGE EXISTS ALL YEAR, BUT IS PARTICULARLY HURTFUL DURG PRI

I’m seekg to move beyond simply scribg the problem and to better unrstand why some gay men behave this way.

From 2015 to 2019 I terviewed gay men om the Midwt and Wt Coast regns of the Uned Stat. A slice of that project – which was recently published the journal Deviant Behavr – explor the way gay men ratnalize their sexual racism and discrimatn on Grdr. The other way that I observed some gay men jtifyg their discrimatn was by amg a way that put the emphasis back on the app.

While social media apps have dramatilly altered the landspe of gay culture, the benefs om the technologil tools n sometim be difficult to see. Scff, another gay datg app, requir ers to reveal more of who they are. But while the LGBTQ+ movement looks forward to a world whout homophobia and transphobia, too often fails to look si self at the racial bias that people of lor face the cis-straight world.

THE GAY COMMUNY’S OBSSN WH STAT AND LOOKS HAS HUGE MENTAL HEALTH COSTS

Dpe polls showg the growg acceptance of LGBTQ+ people the US – and the Supreme Court lg earlier this month guaranteeg employment protectns for gays, lbians, and transgenr workers – there’s still great dispary wh the broar muny between people of lor and their whe unterparts. Referencg a study that found the per-pa rate of fatal shootgs by officers to be 70% lower partments wh black police chiefs than those wh whe learship, our panelists suggted that efforts need to be directed at and enuraged wh policg stutns to unteract ongog racism, homophobia, transphobia, and profilg. Racism has been a problem San Francis’s gay muny, pecially sce the Castro beme a gay neighborhood the early 1970s, and the problem has not abated over time spe perdic efforts to curb .

Romburg outled some of the formal and rmal mpaigns agast racially discrimatory practic gay bars over time—cludg muny rponse to hirg discrimatn, selective intifitn checkg practic, the sale of racist paraphernalia, and more. 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’.

” 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. “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.

THE TTH ABOUT RACISM THE GAY MUNY IS THAT 'S VERY TE

Michel, a south Asian man, tells me of beg turned away bee “you don’t look gay”, and beg lled a “dirty Paki”. “The only time they would wre about people of lour is when they had done somethg homophobic, ” he says. ”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.

DEALG WH RACISM THE GAY MUNY

Mlims are portrayed as an existential threat to gay people, particularly after Orlando. This week, Milo Yiannopolo – a gay attentn-seeker who has bee an in of the US far right – was at the centre of a media storm bee a platform to speak at his old school was whdrawn. In the Netherlands, the anti-immigrant right was led by a gay man, Pim Fortuyn, until his assassatn.

In France, reportedly a third of married gay upl support the far-right Natnal stggle agast racism has, of urse, to be led by people of lour who suffer the nsequenc – such as Black Out UK, which fights for a platform for black gay men, and Media Diversified, which mpaigns for mory reprentatn the media.

But unls whe LGBT people – who the official gay scene venerat – listen to the voic of those who are siled, ltle will opprsed yourself do not mean you are pable of opprsg others: far om .

RACE RELATNS AND RACISM THE LGBTQ MUNY OF TORONTO: PERCEPTNS OF GAY AND QUEER SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIRS OF LOR

Forty-four percent of lbian women have experienced rape, physil vlence, and/or stalkg by an timate partner their lifetime, while 26% of gay men have as well (that number creas to 37% for bisexual men). Across the board, LGBTQIA+ dividuals faced more barriers to accsg aid and re — particularly for transgenr people of lor and Black men who intify as gay.