Comments on: Black, Gay and Brilliant Redux http://www.momsofhue.com/2009/10/black-gay-and-brilliant-redux/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:02:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: t. allen-mercado http://www.momsofhue.com/2009/10/black-gay-and-brilliant-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-290 t. allen-mercado Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:11:43 +0000 http://www.momsofhue.com/?p=434#comment-290 Amazing stuff, huh? We are right here on the topic-I can't imagine for a minute negating the struggle of anyone. There are no gradient degrees of oppression, there is only oppression and you are either the oppressed or an oppressor. .-= t. allen-mercado´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeaAndHoneyBread/~3/YalCavpidVk/art-of-living.html" rel="nofollow">The Art of Living</a> =-. Amazing stuff, huh? We are right here on the topic-I can’t imagine for a minute negating the struggle of anyone. There are no gradient degrees of oppression, there is only oppression and you are either the oppressed or an oppressor.
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]]> By: Barbara http://www.momsofhue.com/2009/10/black-gay-and-brilliant-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-289 Barbara Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:36:08 +0000 http://www.momsofhue.com/?p=434#comment-289 Right on sistah! You don' made me break out my Marlon Riggs, lol. He says, "what lies at the heart, I believe, of Black America's pervasive cultural homophobia is the desperate need for a covenient Other winthin the community, yet not truly of the community- an Other on which blame for the chronic identity crises afflicting the Black male psyche can be readily displaced." He also says, "I am a Negro Faggot, if I believe what movies, TV, and rap music say of me. Because of my sexuality, I cannot be Black. A strong, proud, "Afrocentric" Black man is resolutely heterosexual, not even bisexual... I cannot be a Black Gay Man because, by the tenets of Black Macho, Black Gay Man is a triple negation." I am a queer ally and I believe that love and sexual expression should be free. I also believe that sexuality is never fixed, but continuous, and it is not the kind of sex you have, but how safe you have it ;). Thus, no, we are not tremendously different, but equal as human beings and should be afforded equal rights!! When it comes to the minority rights fight and the gay rights fight I feel that we as blacks are always clawing our way to the top. We will claw through other minorities to assert that "our" struggle is more of the essence than theirs. Same thing when it comes to gay rights. We will claw our way through gay rights issues deeming them unimportant and most certainly not as important as civil rights issues, and queer history most certainly not as important as black history... forgetting that the black and the gay are sometimes one in the same!! .-= Barbara´s last blog ..<a href="http://comfortingplace.blogspot.com/2009/10/rewards.html" rel="nofollow">Rewards</a> =-. Right on sistah! You don’ made me break out my Marlon Riggs, lol. He says, “what lies at the heart, I believe, of Black America’s pervasive cultural homophobia is the desperate need for a covenient Other winthin the community, yet not truly of the community- an Other on which blame for the chronic identity crises afflicting the Black male psyche can be readily displaced.” He also says, “I am a Negro Faggot, if I believe what movies, TV, and rap music say of me. Because of my sexuality, I cannot be Black. A strong, proud, “Afrocentric” Black man is resolutely heterosexual, not even bisexual… I cannot be a Black Gay Man because, by the tenets of Black Macho, Black Gay Man is a triple negation.”

I am a queer ally and I believe that love and sexual expression should be free. I also believe that sexuality is never fixed, but continuous, and it is not the kind of sex you have, but how safe you have it ;) . Thus, no, we are not tremendously different, but equal as human beings and should be afforded equal rights!! When it comes to the minority rights fight and the gay rights fight I feel that we as blacks are always clawing our way to the top. We will claw through other minorities to assert that “our” struggle is more of the essence than theirs. Same thing when it comes to gay rights. We will claw our way through gay rights issues deeming them unimportant and most certainly not as important as civil rights issues, and queer history most certainly not as important as black history… forgetting that the black and the gay are sometimes one in the same!!
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