See, that’s the problem. The sight of men does arouse them, and it scares them shitless.
Remember “Gayface” and the Flamboyant Troubadours shows of the fifities? Well, it’s the same thing, but for blacks.
You know who really has it hard? The Black Gay Midget Albino segment of society.
I think he was in that movie Gummo. And maybe some German web-sites.
Gay bashing was an activity that was so common and acceptable that at my Catholic HS in the early 80’s students could joke about doing it in front of teachers without any sort of admonition.
Why do you think gays stay closeted? Because of the teasing?
But I don’t agree 100% with the OP either.
Yes it is. Not for every black person of coarse. My grandma is full black but most people assume she is white looking at her. She doesn’t try to pass for white but she easily could. I am half black and could live as white. Or italian. Or persian. Or Brazillian…in fact most ignorant people who refuse to believe my being half black are white.
What’s the saying – “You’re not going to be arrested with ‘driving while gay’, but your family won’t disown you for being black?” Or something like that.
Civil rights are civil rights and it’s not a contest, so who gives a shit? Both groups have been oppressed throughout history, sometimes for the same reasons. Things have improved a lot, at least in the West, but a lot of people are still morons. Getting bogged down in a comparison of who has it worse serves no purpose.
Sorry, that should have been “Ugandan gay rights activist bludgeoned to death”. To downplay the struggle to be treated like human and gay at the same time is not right either.
It bothers me that the OP seems to equate a white man having sex with a black woman as “rape,” back during the slavery days. I’ve no doubt that some white men did rape black women but I also have no doubt that some white to black sexual relations were in no way rape, just as some sexual relations between black men and white women were not rape. In other words, sex between white and black people was not automatically rape and I wish people would stop equating the two.
A black woman slave having sex with a white man who has the legal right to beat her severely and sell her children away may not TECHNICALLY be called rape…
You’re making the OP’s point: gay people aren’t often harassed because they’re not often easily identified. As you’ve noted, when they are identified, or even suspected, they can be persecuted just as horribly as any other outgroup.
In 1956 the Wilmington StarNews literally stopped the presses in the middle of the night and chiseled a man’s image out of a group of 4 marines in an associated press photo because they had a policy not to publish pictures of black people. Cite.
I daresay black people would have been much happier in 1960 if the worst thing that happened to them was people covering their images in supermarkets.
That was exactly what I thought when I saw it! WTF Sir Elton - your smile is way weird!
When I saw that cover I thought to myself “Jesus Christ on a stick!” and it wasn’t because there was another man standing in the picture. Can we NOT make Elton John’s God given right to be on the cover of celebrity magazines the poster child for gay rights? Is that really the pressing issue these days? I’m much more worried that there may be other A-list celebrities who haven’t gotten a cute new baby in designer clothing yet.
On issues such as this you really should have a change of mind. It’s much more reliable.
I clearly missed the part where gays were bought and sold like animals. The OP does neither gays nor blacks a service by posting such inflammatory rubbish.
Never attended a gay date auction, I see. The buyers poke the lots with sticks to check their muscle tone.
I knew there was a blackface joke in there, somewhere, I was just too lazy to go for it.