Tensns between trans women and gay men boil over at Stonewall anniversary | Rters

Contents:

• WHY BLACKS DON’T LIKE GAYS
• CNCHG THE NUMBERS ON BLACKS' VIEWS ON GAYS
• NO ASIANS, NO BLACK PEOPLE. WHY DO GAY PEOPLE TOLERATE BLATANT RACISM?
• TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY
• WHY DO STRAIGHTS HATE GAYS?
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

WHY BLACKS DON’T LIKE GAYS

The reasons why the vast majory of Blacks don't like gays are not only multifaceted, but transcend ntemporary issu and arguments surroundg the recently passed Proposn 8 that bans gay marriage California. In short, parg the gay Whe effort of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny to the historic Ain Amerin civil rights stggle is to rce the prec, enriched Black culture–the Black Movement self–to a gradg, offensive, act of sexual gratifitn. This is unrsred throughout the season by a heart-wrenchg flashback, where Luc throws a young Jamal to a trashn after the child walks down the stairs a pair of show's black and gay -creator, Lee Daniels, whose real-life experienc wh his father spired the relatnship on the show, has said he wanted Empire to "blow the lid" off of the "rampant" homophobia the black muny.

He noted that "phback agast gay rights isn't jt happeng amongst black folks, " potg out a strg of hate crim like the murrs of Matthew Shepard and Brandon Teena that were mted by whe people, as well as right-wg policians who advote for anti-LGBT legislatn. Unlike Luc, she lls a prit to attempt a kd of gay a recent terview wh The Advote, Mo'Nique strsed that the homophobia that affects her character and her character's muny, a small Southern town heavily fluenced by the black church, is "strictly" relign and not related to race. ""So -- I'm gog to get trouble for this -- but we need to get over , and not flect, and face , and talk about , " he difficulty of broachg the topic of homophobia the black muny was also raised by Tavis Sey, a PBS talk show host, his terview wh another Blackbird star, Isaiah Washgton.

"In rponse, Washgton raised a nstellatn of factors that ntribute to homophobia, rangg om stutnal racism that plac all young black men a perilo posn ("All of our young boys are dyg, " he strsed) to lonialism Ai that upend "thoands and thoands of years" of acceptance toward people who loved others of the same says an unrstandg of this orig of homophobia will help reame nversatns about the place for LGBT people black culture, which will turn tap to a eper, historic root of acceptance.

CNCHG THE NUMBERS ON BLACKS' VIEWS ON GAYS

"Homophobia is the real import to Uganda, " said Ugandan LGBTI advote Pepe Onziema, after an antigay rally was held on the grave of the murred activist David Kato April Uganda has shown, homophobia n have disastro nsequenc on society.

After llectg dozens of oral histori om black gay men the South, Johnson is stagg a one-man show, Sweet Tea, which he channels the voic of men who have learned to navigate their double inti of black and gay.

The knowledge that centuri of whe racism may have ntributed to should extend far beyond the black muny, said people, particularly the whe LGBT muny, need to wake up to tersectnaly, and realize that the fight agast homophobia requir addrsg the specific needs of every muny, not jt those visible whe spac. "Often black gay folk feel extremely isolated [personally and profsnally] bee there are tensns their relatnships wh the larger, predomantly whe gay muny created by racism, and tensns wh black muni around issu of homophobia, " she was issu like the -- the stggle of black parents when faced wh the possibily of their LGBT child beg disadvantaged as a double mory -- that were on the md of Lee Daniels as he created storyl that galvanized so many. "The hyper-mascule ials forced upon young black boys be wh the homophobia of the black church to create a perfect storm of shame and secrecy, " Rob Smh wrote at Salon, as he tailed his trmatic attempt to e out to his mother.

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

" "Homophobia the black muny — ed, even among the lears of the civil rights movement of the 1960s — was some of the most vilent and stubborn of all, and there are still some who rent the equatn of the gay rights movement wh their stggle, " wrote Charl P.

However, the ntued existence of homophobia—spe the obv downsis—rais qutns about s basic nature: Do psychologil theori like those above really expla why gayns, specifilly, evok such fear, the kd that n sometim even lead to vlent speech and actn? We don’t hear about gay men disverg an tert women later life, and we rarely believe men when they say they are bisexual—the mon, if erroneo, wisdom is that any man who says he is bi is really jt gay and hasn’t admted yet. ”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.

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.

TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY

REUTERS/Brendan McDermidThe scene at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn on Saturday, as reported by multiple wns on social media, showed how long-simmerg tensns between transgenr women of lor and whe gay men have boiled over durg the celebratn of World Pri and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall unintified woman wanted to addrs the crowd si the Greenwich Village gay bar where patrons fought back agast police harassment 50 years ago, birthg the LGBTQ movement. I would like to say the dience was rpectful, but there was que a b of chatter and a few jeers, ” wns Aspen Eberhardt, fance manager of the gay rights group PFLAG, wrote on many gay men, this weekend’s celebratn is about fally beg able to live their te liv, unaaid to clare who they love and beg grateful for achievg virtual equaly, at least plac like Greenwich Village, where the rebelln many transgenr women of lor, reprentg the T the LGBTQ muny, have seized the moment to air their grievanc, such as sufferg om higher levels of unemployment and homelsns as their cisgenr gay and lbian brethren.

But wh four years, “drag queens, ” as they were lled then, were banned om the annual gay pri para that Johnson and Rivera helped the Trans Day of Actn, a rally New York’s Washgton Square Park on Friday, people shouted: “Who started this fight?

One of the thgs I wanted to blog about last week, but didn't get a chance to was this Alter post featurg vio om the Natnal Black Jtice Foundatn's 2nd Annual Black Church Summ, which Michael Eric Dyson addrs the qutn that's been on my md a lot as I've been readg stuff onle lately: "Why are black people so homophobic?

WHY DO STRAIGHTS HATE GAYS?

I know 's ntroversial to say that black people are more homophobic than other people, but my personal experience has been that most black people are more homophobic than are most whe people I've enuntered, and fnely more homophobic as a group than is the general populatn. That was pretty typil of my to returnto Keh's pot, I tend to agree wh Horace Griff And Their Own Receive Them Not (which I reviewed earlier) when he would ed be wrong to prent black heterosexuals as more homophobic than wh if they are not, would also be dishont to prent black people as better on the issue of homosexualy than they really are.... Coverg up black homophobia serv no good purpose and will ultimately hr black heterosexuals om nontg the many ways which they are homophobic and participate a system that promot homophobic attus and practic.

I'm transcribg om the Dyson vio here, so this may not be verbatim, but here's what he of the reasons I thk black people tend to be more homophobic is that our heterosexualy has already been treated as queer by a domant society. Christians, who have been spised and opprsed for much of our existence, should be wary of extendg that opprsn to our lbian sisters and our gay Griff's book do a good job of explag historilly and culturally why blacks tend to be more vehemently homophobic, and Dyson's explanatn of black homophobia l up pretty well wh Griff's own theory.

I n only image that the black parents Philalphia who objected to a mere acknowledgment of a Gay History Month, and nounced as a "whe gay nspiracy" were simply unaware that gay history clus several black gays and lbians like Lorrae Hannberry, Jam Baldw, or Langston Hugh.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

">I uld go to a long diatribe about the gnive dissonance of Jackson sayg "I'm not agast gay people" on one hand, but on the other advotg the kd of discrimatn that has direct negative nsequenc for our fai. Jackson attend the summ, so let me take a mute to give him cred for dog that much, even though his participatn the discsn he dragged out jt about every old, ignorant stereotype of homosexualy held by too many Ain Amerins.

Statistics show that children do better school and are greater ntributors to society when a mother and a father are prent the ncln, let me state that the battle ncerng same sex marriage and gay rights is jt warmg up Ameri.

Jackson's answer would probably then be that I should be celibate; th, beg gay -- whether nate or not -- means havg to accept ls om 's always stck me about the whole "ex-gay" thg is that even at their most benevolent, the bt they n offer me is this: beg gay means that I have to expect ls and accept ls om life.