Frontiers | “It's Jt More Acceptable To Be Whe or Mixed Race and Gay Than Black and Gay”: The Perceptns and Experienc of Homophobia St. Lucia

Contents:

• BEG BLACK AND GAY: HOW TERSECTNAL STIGMA IMPACTS ON THE UPTAKE OF PREP
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• "BEG BLACK AND GAY AMERI BOTH E WH HEAVY DOS OF SELF-LOATHG": ACTOR DARRYL STEPHENS OPENS UP ABOUT TYPESTG, VISIBILY AND TELLG HIS OWN STORY
• THE POWER AND HURT OF GROWG UP BLACK AND GAY
• “IT'S JT MORE ACCEPTABLE TO BE WHE OR MIXED RACE AND GAY THAN BLACK AND GAY”: THE PERCEPTNS AND EXPERIENC OF HOMOPHOBIA ST. LUCIA
• WHAT IT’S LIKE BEG A BLACK, GAY AND NON-BARY PERSON
• ON BEG BLACK, GAY, AND JEWISH—AND FDG RADIL SELF-LOVE

BEG BLACK AND GAY: HOW TERSECTNAL STIGMA IMPACTS ON THE UPTAKE OF PREP

June marks LGBTQ Pri Month, and this year — as anti-racism protts sweep the untry — the foc of the annual time of queer celebratn and reflectn has been on the relatnship between the fight for LGBTQ equaly and the stggle for racial explore this nnectn, NBC Out and NBC News NOW hosted a special report Thursday tled "Pri and Prott, " durg which advot and lears at the tersectn of the Black and queer muni discsed issu om the work of historic gay and trans ins like Bayard Rt and Marsha P. "David and Johnson, the morator, referenced as an example the se of Rt, the Black gay civil rights in who anized the March on Washgton 1963 but was shunned by some fellow civil rights lears due to his sexual means no tersectg inty ncels out or outweighs any other, Bell said.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

I was born 1985 and I would say until, ankly, the last two or three years — wh the troductn of PrEP/Tvada — for most gay men, a fg aspect of our sexual experienc has been an awarens of not jt STIs (STDs that we all need to be aware of and thoughtful about), but, "Am I gog to get HIV/AIDS? However, this is not jt on the basis of beg gay, trans, or genr-nonnformg, as members of the LGBTQ+ muny have also exhibed animosy towards the plight of the BLM movement as well. For stance, a popular gay Tmp supporter named Chadwick Moore tweeted a ntroversial statement, cricizg the regnn of Jueenth and the Black Liv Matter protts as an erasure of Pri Month.

Given the general progrsn society towards acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, whe gay men tend to foc on more ancillary issu ncerng sexualy and genr, such as gay men beg ee to wear makp.

However, for other members of the muny, particularly those who are people of lor, beg gay, trans, or genr nonnformg is still highly stigmatized wh their own racial or ethnic muni. However, homophobia and transphobia still permeate the younger generatn of Black Amerins, as evinced by the aths of 27 transgenr or genr non-nformg people 2020 alone, mostly Black transgenr women.

"BEG BLACK AND GAY AMERI BOTH E WH HEAVY DOS OF SELF-LOATHG": ACTOR DARRYL STEPHENS OPENS UP ABOUT TYPESTG, VISIBILY AND TELLG HIS OWN STORY

As gay men, they are expected to disclose their sexual orientatn orr to accs servic such as PrEP but there is a breakdown the relatnship between provir and client.

“…I thk ’s also more [stigma] Ain Amerin muny bee, like, I jt feel like jt beg Ain Amerin, beg gay, like jt that stuff that happened throughout my past, like beg judged and battered and stuff, kda ma me tough…”. Tom HollandFans of Brish actor Tom Holland have e to his fense after some social media ers were seemgly upset that the latt episo of his Apple TV+ seri The Crowd Room featured gay the scene, Holland’s character go to a club wh heavy black eyeler and all black. ”A lot of other ers, however, seemed very nfed over the backlash, pecially sce Spir-Man actors Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have also played gay person wrote, “Watchg agile cishet men have breakdowns over the reason Tom Holland is trendg is sweet we to me.

THE POWER AND HURT OF GROWG UP BLACK AND GAY

Self-scribed as “THE black, gay poster child, ” wh a signature part as the tle character the h LOGO seri “Noah’s Arc” and a sexy romantic leadg role the gay classic “Boy Culture, ” actor Darryl Stephens found himself at a profsnal crossroad. His characters—om the fabulo, sissified Noah Nicholson to the hot, butch sex object he played “Another Gay Movie”—spired viewers as much as they drew cricism for playg up black and gay stereotyp.

One of the gifts of beg a gay man is to exprs our emotns, and that vulnerabily of beg raised that we are “ls than, ” and havg to experience that, and work through that, and do together, is important. Much is beg ma of HGTV’s cisn to ncel a prevly announced new seri, "Flip Forward," bee s stars, tw brothers David and Jason Benham, had exprsed their fah-based, pro-life valu and belief that marriage should be between one man and one woman.Many the media have lled their beliefs anti-gay and siar to race-based bigotry.Look… HGTV is a private enty that n make whatever cisn choos regardg s work and bs operatns, however, has bee extremely disturbg to me that media personali and social groups have equated the Benham brother’s support for tradnal marriage to racism.[pullquote]The same race/gay parisons were ma after the firg of Mozilla CEO, Brendan Eich, who supported California’s Proposn 8 mpaign to not refe marriage.News flash for the media and Ameri: race and ethnicy are not the same as sexual behavr and sexual orientatn.I am a registered Democrat, I love gays, I have gays my fay, and I value tolerance and cln, but the natnal dialogue regardg gay rights, abortn, and ee speech have gone way overboard.I am also a pastor who unapologetilly teach a biblil unrstandg of marriage and the sancty of life.There are lns of relig Amerins, like me, who love gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people, and love women who’ve had abortns, but believe that heterosexual relatnships are blogilly, physlogilly, and spirually unique and therefore should be rerved for the unn intifitn of marriage and that life begs at nceptn.Our views should be rpected.Societal stctur exist throughout our culture and I believe heterosexual unns should be one of those stctur that are prerved for marriage between a man and woman.Homosexual relatnships should be fed another way. When I walk to a room, everyone knows that I am Ain-Amerin.However, sexualy, cludg homosexualy and heterosexualy, refers to timate personal behavrs.Ethnicy and sexualy is clearly not the same.

So, this argument should not be ed for jtifitn or cricism the natnal nversatn regardg gay rights.Thankfully, our natn has moved away om s hateful past regardg slavery, and we rightly speak out agast discrimatn.

“IT'S JT MORE ACCEPTABLE TO BE WHE OR MIXED RACE AND GAY THAN BLACK AND GAY”: THE PERCEPTNS AND EXPERIENC OF HOMOPHOBIA ST. LUCIA

You n both love gays and still hold to the belief that marriage should be whheld for a man and woman.Ameri’s First Amendment giv the right to disagree on marriage and abortn, so we should learn to exist and live together harmony.One of the reasons that mak the Uned Stat so great is our “big tent” philosophy and rpect for diversy of opn and fah.I’d personally like for everyone to be a Christian, but that don’t mean that I cricize those who don’t agree wh me.Openly gay journalist Andrew Sullivan said bt rponse to the Mozilla firg, “The guy who had the gall to exprs his First Amendment rights and favor Prop 8 California by donatg $1,000 has jt been slped by some gay activists… The whole episo disgts me — as should disgt anyone terted a tolerant and diverse society.”It is my First Amendment right to live out my fah-based nvictn on marriage and abortn, and I would ask the media and the natn to be tolerant of me and the lns of other Christians who share my belief.As an Ain-Amerin, is offensive that race and sexual orientatn is erroneoly pared to vilify people of fah and supprs our First Amendment rights.

” Jon regniz “so much more of myself him than I ever uld’ve expected, ” and when he looks up at Daniel durg the attack, he don’t “see a gay basher; I saw a man who thought he was fightg for his life. Except for passag about the aths of Jam Byrd Jr., a black Texan who was chaed to the back of a tck by whe supremacists and dragged to his ath 1998, and Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyomg llege stunt who was beaten and left to die that same year, Jon’s memoir, which is stctured as a seri of date-stamped vigt, exists largely separate om the culture of each time perd. Later, when explag his need to sexualize and “shame one straight man after another, ” he explas that “if Ameri was gog to hate me for beg black and gay, then I might as well make a weapon out of myself.

Former Brish Caribbean loni cludg Jamai, Barbados and the Bahamas (Gasks, 2013) have been the foc of psychologil rearch on sexual orientatn and homophobia the Caribbean regn (e. This qualative study foc on this gap the lerature by explorg the perceptns and experienc of homophobia among lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) dividuals livg St Lucia, an Eastern Caribbean Island wh a Brish and French creolized, or Kwéyòl, lonial history, culture and language. All homosexual acts are illegal Tridad and Tobago and Barbados; and male homosexualy cludg sodomy and public displays of affectn are illegal Guyana and Jamai but female homosexualy is not (Human Rights Watch, 2004; Sheller, 2012).

WHAT IT’S LIKE BEG A BLACK, GAY AND NON-BARY PERSON

Some law enforcement agenci the regn fail to protect LGB dividuals om homophobic hate crime; and some law enforcement officers themselv have been volved harassment and attacks on men and women perceived to be homosexual (Human Rights Watch, 2004; Becker, 2013; Cloonan, 2013; Stanislas, 2013a, b).

The prevalence of homophobia and homophobic abe Jamai and other Caribbean Islands has been lked to high rat of fay disownment, homelsns and lonels wh lol LGB muni (Bourne et al., 2012). Homophobia has also ntributed to some of the mental health issu experienced by LGB dividuals the regn cludg their greater rat of prsn, anxiety and substance mise disorrs pared to heterosexuals (Kg et al., 2006; Addis et al., 2009; Whe et al., 2010; Milne, 2011; Bourne et al., 2012).

A study of stigma and discrimatn experienced by homosexual men Jamai found that the majory of participants reported fay disownment and beg “shamed” to droppg out of school (Bourne et al., 2012).

ON BEG BLACK, GAY, AND JEWISH—AND FDG RADIL SELF-LOVE

Over 50% their study reported experiencg homophobic abe, such as name-llg, discrimatn, vlence, threats of vlence, and harassment on more than three ocsns each month. G., Chevann and Gayle, 2000; Chevann, 2001; Redg, 2003; Zimmerman, 2003; Human Rights Watch, 2004; Gorry and Miller, 2005; Kempadoo, 2009; Coat, 2010; Nelson and Mell, 2010; Porter and Prce, 2011; Smh, 2011; Careaga, 2011; Stanislas, 2013a, b; Sáez, 2015). This pattern suggts differenc iologil handovers om the regns lonial past have led to differenc homophobia across the Caribbean (Sharpe and Pto, 2006; Kempadoo, 2009).