Comments on: Gay isn’t the new black

By: marlon

marlon — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:50:36 +0000

hey i was reading your article and you made some pretty interesting points but where i was a little counter oppressive was where you said that gays can choose to be hetero. and you know what you are completely right but the gay person would not be comfortable with doing that only because society wants to. without any offense to you or the rest of the “black” community, it almost like saying colored people can choose to be “white.” there are procedures to change ones skin tone, but you see question is would you do it only because of social constructs?

By: blaqmarc

blaqmarc — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:47:36 +0000

I had a conversation with a fellow college student who's lesbian, she told me that her professor that happens to be black, was making odd remarks about gays. Everyone knows she's the only gay female in the classroom she was mad about it and debated with him about his remarks. He simply said that he has gay friends so it's ok he's just joking. She asked me how could she have a meeting with his employers, so he'll be made not to insult her or anyone that's gay again. She also ranted that how would he like it if she made black jokes about him and she's going to make that question before him and his bosses.

I stopped her right there, I said she'll lose that fight, when she said why I laid it out for to understand easily. I told here that you can't bring 500 years of oppression from one race to use as a weapon, it'll backfire, gay or straight you can pick or choose who you want to have sex with. Either by dating, meeting or payment sex has no colorlines, only the person of color does and here's a great analogy I used I said if we were walking down the street towards a group of people of other races and there are no blacks, I'm the only black person there then I asked her how can these people know if you're gay she thought for a moment then replied, I have to tell them I said I can't tell you that I'm black...that's the real prejudice. I told her to tell the teacher's bosses privately what happen and if it happens again you will get the LGBT community after the college and it'll make great news on CNN, FOX, MTV, ABCNEWS, NBC, etc. Let them know how much negativity is being brought on gay students in an Art school that has LGBT support sessions every quarter, it'll blow up in their faces and you didn't use the race factor. I don't know what happened after our discussion but hopefully she came out on top.

By: Pip

Pip — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:54:46 +0000

Just like Michael Jackson chose to bleach his skin, gay men can choose to have sex with women. Does Michael Jackson’s skin “condition” mean that his genetics will create male babies that look like deformed white women? No. Does a gay man having sex with a woman mean that he won’t be attracted to men anymore, and develop a desire to play with vaginas? No.
Its like you said, being a straight black woman doesn’t make you an authority on white gay men (or any other minority group apparently). So why don’t you just shut your trap, or at least read a few articles for publishing your own on topic you know nothing about.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:07:30 +0000

Hey. Who said “gay” was the new “black”? I’m a black lesbian female. I have three kinds of discrimination coming at me. But I do equate being lesbian and being black as similar. For me, I was born female. I was born black. And I was born gay.

This who “gay” as the new “black” thing I think you’re referring to is some Central Michigan culture thing, so I wish this article was better articulated.

By: MM

MM — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:18:50 +0000

While I agree that blacks experienced much more discrimination, I completely disagree with this statement…

“I cannot change myself from being black to another ethnicity while, with homosexuality, sometimes people can choose to become heterosexual.”

Um…gays can’t choose to become heterosexual and I find it extremely offensive that you would imply that. Being gay isn’t a choice. This whole sentence should have been completely taken out of the article. If it had been, you would have had a much stronger argument. Know I question your sincerity about this issue.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:22:00 +0000

Please add my name to the long list of others who have decried this drivel. I am truly appalled at the total lack of journalistic integrity as well as editorial oversight here; a very cursory amount of research in any decent library would have yielded this author with enough material to know that same-sex attraction cannot be changed or redirected. It is not, and never was, a choice.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:22:22 +0000

I totally agree with Sherri on this issue. For those like Daniel who erroneously believe: “We all saw Michael Jackson change from a black man into a white man.” How can you actually believe that? In fact what we all witnessed was an African American man’s skin become lighter. Michael Jackson remained African American until the day he died.

Lightening the skin does NOT change ones ethnicity! And by the way, gays can remain in the closet until they choose to come out, African Americans cannot. So gay is not and never will be the new Black.

There are countless people who have chosen to leave the gay lifestyle and now live heterosexual lives.

This was not the caustic article some have tried to make it out to be.

By: Eddie Thompkins

Eddie Thompkins — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:46:19 +0000

Interesting debate here, but let me chime in if I may. First of all, there will never be “A New Black.” The Black experience is a unique experience with its own personal history and struggles. Yes there are commonalities amongs the plight of all those oppressed, but these experiences are not equal and it is offensive and naive to imply they are. I don’t know very many people denied loans because they were gay. I don’t know many property deeds that state in writing “not to be sold to gays.” You can lie about being gay, not true for most Blacks I know. If gays are so eager to pick a minority group to identify with, try the Republicans. If Gay is the new Black, then Republican is the new Gay. Excellent Article!

By: Eddie Thompkins

Eddie Thompkins — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:27:43 +0000

Interesting debate here, but let me chime in if I may. First of all, there will never be “A New Black.” The Black experience is a unique experience with its own personal history and struggles. Yes there are commonalities amongs the plight of all those oppressed, but these experiences are not equal and it is offensive and naive to imply they are. I don’t know very many people denied loans because they were gay. I don’t know many property deeds that state in writing “not to be sold to coloreds.” You can lie about being gay, not true for most Blacks I know. If gays are so eager to pick a minority group to identify with, try the Republicans. If Gay is the new Black, then Republican is the new Gay. Excellent Article!

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:02:10 +0000

I totally agree with Sherri on this issue. For those like Daniel who erroneously believe: “We all saw Michael Jackson change from a black man into a white man.” What a completely ignorant statement. What we all witnessed was an African American man’s skin become lighter. Michael Jackson still remained African American until the day he died.

There are countless people who have chosen to leave the gay lifestyle and now live heterosexual lives. With God ANYTHING is possible.

This was not the caustic article some have tried to make it out to be.