Opn | Whe gay culture's toxicy rembl racism - The Daily Illi

Contents:

• THE TTH ABOUT RACISM THE GAY MUNY IS THAT 'S VERY TE
• SHOCKG SURVEY FDS RACISM IS ENMIC AMONG GAY MEN
• MEET THE WHE GAY MEN WHO ARE RACIST
• WHE GAY MAN LNCH TO EXPLOSIVE, RACIST RANT BEFORE ASSLTG AN NOCENT BYSTANR VILE VIRAL VIO
• HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM
• NO ASIANS, NO BLACK PEOPLE. WHY DO GAY PEOPLE TOLERATE BLATANT RACISM?
• OPN | WHE GAY CULTURE’S TOXICY REMBL RACISM
• GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
• 10 COUNTRI THAT COMPLETELY HATE GAY PEOPLE
• BALD AND UNR THIRTY: ARE YOU GAY OR RACIST, MATE?
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• DEAR WHE GAY MEN: LABELG PEOPLE OF COLOR "DIVISIVE" ISN'T A CRIQUE — IT'S RACISM
• ‘RACISM IS VERY PREVALENT THE JEWISH MUNY.’ A BLACK, JEWISH, GAY LEAR SPEAKS OUT.
• WHE GAY PRIVILEGE EXISTS ALL YEAR, BUT IS PARTICULARLY HURTFUL DURG PRI
• HERE'S ONE BTAL TTH EVERY WHE GAY MAN NEEDS TO HEAR
• TIKTOKER ONLYJAY UNR FIRE FOR G RACIAL AND ANTI-GAY SLURS

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

But what affects a black gay man Los Angel more: Some redneck Birmgham takg to Facebook to ll the Print a "The N Word, " or beg socially ignored by members of the (more heavy quot) "gay muny" his own cy?

He told FS magaze: “The mastream LGBT muny spends time tellg the world to stop the opprsn, homophobia and prejudice, but neglects the fact that is prejudiced treatg BAME LGBT people as send class cizens and often ignorg them”. If you intified as gay you wouldn’t be acced of beg sexist by sayg no girls however if is done a disrpectful manner or sult the person the be racism but simply puttg no blacks or equivalent is not racism, ” says Adam, 21.

“When I arrived at a gay club wh a black iend, the door staff asked him whether he knew was a gay club not me and when I walked around the club wh him, people on the dancefloor kept stoppg and askg him if he sold dgs. Kennedy has claimed that fluoridated water is “dggg” children, HIV do not e Aids and chemils the water are makg people gay or transgenr as well as phg nonsensil nspiracy theori about wifi and 5G cellular the son of former attorney general Robert Kennedy, and nephew of former print John F Kennedy, Kennedy has ed anguish to one of Ameri’s most storied polil dynasti wh his toxic 2019 three relativ wrote an opn lumn for the Poli webse nmng his anti-vacce advocy, which they held partially rponsible for a measl Congrsnal Integry Project ntends that Kennedy is a “Republin stooge” who is beg embraced by the far right an attempt to damage Bin.

SHOCKG SURVEY FDS RACISM IS ENMIC AMONG GAY MEN

Brish pop rock band The 1975 has announced was ncelg s shows Jakarta and Taipei after the Malaysian ernment cut short a mic ftival, a day before, as the band’s lead sger slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance.

At the same time, 77 percent of Amerins say they are “extremely” or “very” ncerned by book rtrictns schools, acrdg to a March poll om Fox is also the se, said Skidmore College profsor Cathere Goln, who teach a class on 19th-century children’s lerature, that objectns are surgg bee the number of visual-rich picture books portrayg what ’s like to have gay parents or be transgenr has explod.

In his book The Homo and the Negro, O’Meara says that gay whe men reprent the bt of what Wtern culture has to offer bee of their “telligence” and “bety, ” and that “Negro” reprent the worst, beg pable of “achievement.

MEET THE WHE GAY MEN WHO ARE RACIST

Sce around 2010, some (though by no means all) groups the learship of the whe natnalist movement have been vg out cis gay men to speak at their nferenc, wre for their magaz, and be terviewed their journals. Donovan tri to sugarat his own racist beliefs when speakg to his ma fan base, gay men who like his macho looks and straight men om the “pickup artist” culture and the manosphere who are sperately tryg to learn om him how to be manly.

WHE GAY MAN LNCH TO EXPLOSIVE, RACIST RANT BEFORE ASSLTG AN NOCENT BYSTANR VILE VIRAL VIO

He’s parlayed his butch allure to a brand, earng money om a le of T-shirts and wrist guards that say thgs like BARBARIAN and a seri of books that seek to stct both straight and gay men how to bee more mascule and particular, more “vlent. ” Though Donovan tri to me the latent sexs vlence for all ’s worth, he is, fact, agast nsensual BDSM, nmng a 2010 say as part of a long list of evils that he feels has been perpetuated by gay culture: the “extreme promiscuy, sadomasochism, transvtism, transsexualy, and flamboyant effemacy” promoted by “the pk-haired, punk rock stepchildren of femism, ” gay activists. If Donovan is a riture of the gay Nazi strongman—almost a personifitn of the phrase “body fascism” (which was origally ed by gay men to crique other gay men’s obssn wh perfect gym bodi)—his unterpart, Jam O’Meara, is an embodiment of somethg that uld barely be imaged until now: Nazi mp.

HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM

Far femmier than Donovan both looks and tone, O’Meara wr alternately smirkg and playful says for Counter-Currents about men’s clothg, the closeted Cardal Spellman, the “homoromanticism” of the Boy Suts, and the polil enomy of The Gilmore Girls. O’Meara openly lov Hler, but he also groov to the socialist Osr Wil, and, an terview wh the webze Alternative Right, admirgly quot “Bunny” Roger, the gay Brish dandy and World War II hero, as sayg: “Now that I’ve killed so many Nazis Daddy will have to buy me a sable at. ” In a podst, O’Meara said, “The blacks get their chicks pregnant as soon as they turn 15, and have 30 different children wh 10 different women” bee of Jewish schemg: “the poison that the Jewish mentaly troduc” promot heterosexual sex and “girl-crazs” stead of the glor gayns that would domate “if the Jews hadn’t taken over Hollywood.

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

Polls show that over one third of French gay men supported Le Pen the recent electn spe her promise to end same-sex marriage, and Germany, the far-right AfD recently tapped an out lbian banker to n for chancellor.

Only two days after the massacre at the Pulse nightclub Orlando last year, whe-natnalist meme producer (and proud homophobe) Butch Leghorn wrote on the alt-right webse The Right Stuff, “This shootg [is] a very valuable wedge issue. ” Butch and his -activists put out a plethora of mem for the ocsn wh, for example, a rabow flag and the words FUCK ISLAM, and the phras, “To be pro-Islam is to be anti-Gay … Daddy’s gonna build a wall and keep you safe. One of the many gay people who received, and began avidly sendg out, such mem was Peter Boyk, a 39-year-old, married, whe Virgian who had eight years earlier been spic of Obama bee, as he told me a phone terview, “His name is like Osama b Lan.

OPN | WHE GAY CULTURE’S TOXICY REMBL RACISM

” Boyk, who grew up wh nservative Catholic parents who had mpaigned for Ronald Reagan, found an anizatn lled “Gays for Tmp” after he attend a party of the same name at the Republin nventn last July. ” But Boyk is profoundly worried about Mlim immigrants (who, acrdg to a recent Pew poll, are actually more likely to believe tolerance of homosexualy than evangelil Christians) wantg to hurt him: “I keep seeg vios people send me where they’re beheadg the 13-year-old boys and throwg people off of roofs.

GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

Rather than monizg men who may long for a strong brotherhood to protect them a society that is creasgly unsafe and un-nourishg for all of , we should unter-anize among them and have the searchg and mted nversatns about racism and sexism that have too often elud the gay muny. ”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.

10 COUNTRI THAT COMPLETELY HATE GAY PEOPLE

In nversatn wh other Black gay iends of me, they have told me the stori of beg turned down for dat, even urtship – not bee of any glarg personaly fect, but bee they, much like I was at tim, were told, “I’m not to Black men.

BALD AND UNR THIRTY: ARE YOU GAY OR RACIST, MATE?

But even though the nversatns that muted this lumn for six weeks are nowhere close to beg over, I do feel like some thgs that me up durg that time of ntemplatn are worth sayg now — particularly to my fellow whe gay cis out more stori on LGBTQ+ ins and activistsHowever, the ghost of Larry Kramer very much remaed my own head as I ma my way through a Pri month unlike any other.

I spent a few quiet afternoons readg his 1978 but novel Faggots, a satiril (yet clearly tobgraphil) look at the liv of gay men 1970s New York Cy that he wrote jt before AIDS ma him a figurehead of Amerin activism. Followg a man his late 30s (based on Kramer himself) who is seekg out a lovg, long-term relatnship a sea of hedonism, the novel has a clear msage: gay men need to start lovg each other stead of beg so obssed wh gettg fucked up and (lerally and figuratively) fuckg each other.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

In mastream gay media, the phrase almost always refers to a fairly specific subset of the LGBTQ "muny" largely ma up of whe gay cis men — even though many of the battl won around queer rights were fought by people of lour, trans and genr-nonnformg folks, and queer women, and fact the morn Pri movement self was large part iated by Black trans women.

If an imprsn of a monolhic "gay culture" fed by such a homogeneo mographic exists, is bee whe gay cis men have until very recently domated mastream reprentatn unr the LGBTQ umbrella and have, general, been hand a level of privilege the last that is wildly disproportnate to any other mographic unr said umbrella. In analyzg the show's pictn of young gay men livg San Francis, wrer Daniel Wenger diagnos what he terms the "new gay sadns": an entire generatn of urban, privileged gay men who seem to have no clue what they're lookg for or who they are. Largely born the 1980s, they are the earlit wave of a "post-Stonewall, post-plague, post-activist" generatn of gays — "too old to have brought a boy to the prom and too young to have nursed a fantasy of nng away to an urban gay utopia, " Wenger explas.

DEAR WHE GAY MEN: LABELG PEOPLE OF COLOR "DIVISIVE" ISN'T A CRIQUE — IT'S RACISM

Queeri5 pneerg LGBTQ Canadian films you n watch for ee right nowI've seen many of my fellow whe gay cis men seemgly rise to the ocsn by retweetg Black and Indigeno voic, gog to ralli and vowg to te themselv on how to tly be anti-racist (though how performative that is some s is unclear).

Rettg "gay culture" will require fightg back agast entrenched social prsur and expectatns of gay cis men — and llg them out when they perpetuate, even passively, any form of discrimatory dialogue.

From Sharia stat that mand the ath penalty to hard-le Christian natns that leave gay people to rot disease-fted prisons, the Earth remas a very bleak, very dark place for lns of non-straight people. Thanks to a 1987 law that legalized sex chang, parents of gay children routely force them to unrgo unwanted hormone treatment, chemil stratn, and sexual reassignment surgery to pe beg murred by the regime’s thugs. DaBaby has e unr fire for homophobic remarks he ma while on stage at the Rollg Loud Miami mic ftival over the Charlotte, North Carola, performer—whose given name is Jonathan Lyndale Kirk—is facg cricism for makg disparagg ments about gay people and people livg wh HIV/ footage at the show shows the 29-year-old rapper sayg the followg remarks.

‘RACISM IS VERY PREVALENT THE JEWISH MUNY.’ A BLACK, JEWISH, GAY LEAR SPEAKS OUT.

"Bee, regardls of what you mother******* are talkg about and how the ter twisted up my mother******* words, me and all my fans at the show, the gay on and the straight on, we turned the f*** up.

”But for those who object, Thorne thks ’s important to remember that wasn’t that long ago that “obvly racist, sexist and bigoted and prejudicial ephets (the n-word, the f-word for gay men) were heard all over the Wtern world.

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

The stggle agast Coors Beer, embodied the Coors Beer Boytt that began 1977 and ntued through the Reagan years and beyond, is an important example of workg class uny that took up the banner of LGBTQ rights through an unshakable alliance of gay activists and anizatns, labor unns, immigrant rights groups and other anti-racist sectors, settg the basis for the uny that the movements share today. But perhaps, Kight was bt known his role for lkg the LGBTQ rights movement at the time wh the larger people’s unter offensive agast the right-wg, when he lled a powerful monstratn at Outft, a gay and lbian film ftival, 1977, after anizers for the LGBTQ social event accepted fundg om Coors Beer.

Smh brought the Coors Boytt to Harvey Milk’s attentn, who ed his posn as an openly gay elected official to ph forward the labor/LGBTQ/immigrant alliance that was formg the Bay Area at the time through the ancy of the Coors Boytt. There were many others the LGBTQ movement who played key rol, such as Howard Wallace, an openly gay Teamster who helped tablish the the labor-LGBTQ alliance; and of urse, and the untold number of rank and file muny members who would not support any tablishment that served Coors Beer or any of their products.

HERE'S ONE BTAL TTH EVERY WHE GAY MAN NEEDS TO HEAR

In the year and a half sce then, I've been the victim of nstant prejudice is often a subtle mask for a different snap judgement, as many people prume that a man wh a shaved head is one of two thgs: gay or heads are a popular and stereotypil look wh two UK muni. For a fascistic thug, though, the ifitn of the c*ck mak ls sense, unls one subscrib to the sneerg viewpot that every homophobe is a reprsed homosexual sred of his own we n nsir, though, is the fact that male pattern baldns affects whe men far more - and far earlier - than men of other rac. And more to the pot, cril speech and of self is no way more “divisive” than the racist, transphobic, or misogynist behavr you’re beg asked to fet: It is a privilege to argue about opprsn or “divisive” thgs when you yourself do not have to experience such opprsn every day of your queer people, you mt regnize that there are hierarchil power stctur built to the LGBTQ+ muny, due to the very real opprsn of those wh who are not whe gay men.

Those remarks, which clu qutng why whe people n't e a racial slur reference to Black people and g slurs reference to gay people, have drawn attentn onle this month after a vio pilatn of several such stanc was published on ' ments have drawn cricism om U. ”Massie had already offered sharps cricisms of Deters, but his cricisms grew even stronger light of racist ments that Deters has vios across social media channels, where Deters has regularly posted for years, the former attorney and aspirg polician has ed the N-word, ed a homophobic slur, and claimed that “blacks want to ntrol everythg, ” among other racist and offensive ments. But hasn’t been an easy path: Palmer is what you might ll the poster boy for tersectnaly — the ia that there are overlappg forms of discrimatn that pound opprsn— bee he is Black, Jewish and gay.

Smollett’s legal team also ced several other issu the 102-page document, allegg that the prosecutn was dismissive of the fense’s qutng that sought to tablish homophobia the se, arbrarily enforced COVID-19 protols durg the trial, dismissed Black and gay potential jurors and should not have allowed Smollett’s full bombshell “Good Morng Ameri” terview to play durg jury year, Smollett, who is gay and Black, was released early om tentn after servg six days of his 150-day sentence pendg his appeal. His appeal was due to be filed last Augt, but his attorneys have been granted five extensns to that adle, CNN a nearly two-week trial durg the panmic, Smollett was nvicted late 2021 on charg that he staged an anti-gay, racist attack on himself on a igid January 2019 night and then lied to Chigo police about .

TIKTOKER ONLYJAY UNR FIRE FOR G RACIAL AND ANTI-GAY SLURS

Jt as the movement for LGBTQ rights has been whewashed, so has Pri month often felt like a whe, gay-centered event — far removed om the lears of the Stonewall a recent article for BET, I discs how the Stonewall rts should be nsired an important part of Black history. And yet Roland Emmerlich’s 2015 movie "Stonewall" shamelsly downplayed the role Black queer people played leadg the rts — gog so far as havg a whe gay man throw the first brick, stead of Marsha P. ”It isn’t a cince that that same summer of 2017, 11 owners of queer spac Philalphia went through mandatory anti-discrimatn trag after several cints at var gay bars — cludg the disvery of a YouTube vio showg bar owner Darryl DePiano g racial slurs 2016, and other alleged cints volvg racial discrimatn.

When to the morn fight for equal rights, 's imperative that we remd our straight unterparts that we were born this whe men were born gay, but they were also raised and socialized as whe men — the social group vted wh the most privilege Ameri.

If we hope to eradite racism wh the gay muny, whe gay men mt acknowledge their privilege — and the way 's ed, ways subtle and not, to nigrate a Lato gay man, I know firsthand that my sk lor affects how I teract wh the larger muny.