In the wake of California's passage of Proposn 8, protts are poppg up around the untry -- and so are parisons between gays' and Ain-Amerins' fights for equaly. Is gay the new black? Michael Joseph Gross exam two stggl for civil rights. Pl: Photos om Wednday night's rally New York Cy.
Contents:
- GAY IS NOT THE NEW BLACK
- IS GAY NOW THE NEW BLACK?
- GAY IS THE NEW BLACK?
- IT'S OFFICIAL: GAY IS THE NEW BLACK
- IS GAY THE NEW BLACK?
GAY IS NOT THE NEW BLACK
Voddie Bcham expos the siari between the Civil Rights Movement and the so-lled Gay Rights Movement, while potg out the signifint difference between ethnicy and sexual orientatn. * gay is the new black *
It’s hard to ny that homosexual marriage appears to be a foregone ncln Ameri.
One of the cleart exampl of the nflatn of homosexual “marriage” and civil rights is Michael Gross’s article The Advote, which he s the now-popular phrase “Gay is the new black. When asked by GQ magaze if he thought homosexualy was a choice, Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republin Natnal Commtee, replied:.
Um, you know, I thk that there’s a whole lot that go to the makp of an dividual that, uh, you jt n’t simply say, oh, like, “Tomorrow morng I’m gonna stop beg gay. The California Supreme Court, like Gross, would have believe that the homosexual stggle for a refn of marriage puts them the same tegory as my anctors.
IS GAY NOW THE NEW BLACK?
* gay is the new black *
The first problem wh the ia of nflatg “sexual orientatn” and race is the fact that homosexualy is untectable apart om self-intifitn. Not so wh homosexualy. 5 Moreover, the homosexual muny self has ma this intifitn even more plited an effort to distance self om those whose same-sex behavr they fd unsirable.
GAY IS THE NEW BLACK?
However, try placg the label “homosexual” on his activi and the backlash will be swift and unequivol. “Pedophil are not homosexuals!
” is the nsistent rea g om the homosexual muny, media, amia, and the psychologil/medil tablishment. 6 Hence, seems same-sex attractn alone isn’t enough to intify a person as a homosexual. Are the people homosexual?
IT'S OFFICIAL: GAY IS THE NEW BLACK
How about men who are extremely effemate but prefer women, or those who once were practicg homosexuals but have sce e out of the liftyle (i. In short, ’s impossible to intify who is or is not a homosexual.
IS GAY THE NEW BLACK?
Should a man who isn’t a homosexual (assumg we uld terme such a thg) but tri to enter a same-sex unn be treated the same as a woman who isn’t Native Amerin but tri to claim to w sympathy, or so rights, or vot?