It's been said the black gay community won't show up for activist type events. The picture above was taken during the '07 Pride in the City party on Riis beach. It doesn't adequately convey the massive amount of folks there that day - but just imagine the camera scrolling down the beach, north and south, shoreline to pier, a sea of same gender loving men and women in varying shades of brown. It was an awesome sight. Unfortunately, getting that same crowd to care about serious issues can be like banging your head against a wall. The argument: What do we care about marriage? My answer: I don't care about marriage, per se. It's the principle. It's all about the principle. One day all this won't matter. One day we'll all have equal rights and people will wonder why those back in the day folks were so ignorant. Yet, the black community is still largely more homophobic than others. Why? Could it have anything to do with the fact that of the thousands of people at the marriage equality rally in NYC yesterday, there were only a sprinkling of black faces in the crowd?
The cast of HAIR singing 'Let the Sun Shine In', which was a rousing crowd pleaser and perfect counterpoint to NOM's ignorant & ominous 'Gathering Storm' ad. If we don't rise up as black gay people and take a stand, then we can't bitch & moan either. Can't have it both ways. If we can support SIZZLE and all the other circuit events, then we damn sure better recognize that the right to have those parties didn't arrive out of thin air. Wake up people. ~~ |
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Oddly enough, Barry, allegedly, has supported gay rights in the past. But now he claims to be doing the bidding of his constituents. And if that's true, well, will cowardly crack-head wonders never cease. The people who he claims won't stand for gay marriage are the same fools who elected a disgraced, lying, cheating crack-head to the city council who votes on bills he later claims he didn't understand. I'm not so much saying his constituents ain't worth shit, I am saying a politician who has no stand of his own isn't. Keep passing that pipe Barry.
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When I was Eleven... © 2009 Taylor Siluwé
I wanted to be scientist. While other boys played with sports, I played with bugs. Though my attempts at creating Bugzilla by injecting them with all sort of junk always failed, I never gave up. For me, creating something new and wonderful - like a fifty-foot Potato Beetle – was infinitely better than practicing getting little balls through little holes, or down field without breaking my glasses. The other boys thought I was weird and loved telling me so, hourly. Through all the getting suddenly shoved into the lockers, mocked for getting A’s without really trying, laughed at for doing anything more outgoing than just standing quietly in a corner, I never once thought of wrapping a rope around my neck and hanging myself. But then again, maybe if it were all the rage at the time, I would have. Maybe. ~
UPDATE: Anderson Cooper addresses Bullycide as prosecutors ponder criminal charges in the Jaheem Herrara case.
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I got this note recently in a same sex yahoo group:
Sadly, this is the attitude of many in the gay communtity. This issue reminds me of a line from the musical Funny Girl, the track Sadie, Sadie:
Barbra Streisand's character believed (as did all women then) that being married was the ultimate, being married meant something, it carried a powerful punch, it opened doors. So I agree that we have issues to worry about other than marriage equality, or, as I like to say, just equality -- because its really not about that "simple wedding band". For as long as they can deny us this basic right of human existence, and justify it for whatever reasons, it sends the unspoken message that:
By saying we don't deserve the right to [ fill in the blank ] shouts to the world that we're different, we're "less than", and opens the floodgate to discriminate, abuse, and even kill. That's unacceptable. That's why this seemingly unimportant issue is so very important.
Like Obama said, we have to be able to handle more than one thing at a time. And while we bicker over whether we should fight for this or that right, people, children, are dying. This heartbreaking story of an 11 year old who was bullied and called "gay" so much that he hung himself is becoming all too common. "Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover hanged himself by tying an electrical cord around his neck that was fastened to a support beam in his home after enduring another day of being taunted at New Leadership Charter School." And yet, many of us STILL sit by while we are marginalized, and while our youth are tormented so that they hang themselves. It's truly sad what self-loathing homos will allow to be heaped upon their bowing and scraping heads. Thank God, I'll never be one of them. ~~
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