Thread by @blackrepublican

Is #GayWhiteSupremacy Slaughtering Black Gays?

A colorblind rainbow 🌈 that slays black men?

Well, let's talk about it: Do #BlackLivesMatter in the Gay Community?

#HappyPrideMonth #BlackLivesMatter

"A 2014 study shows among black men who have sex with men, 45 percent of sexual encounters were with other black men. The researchers who identified that unusually high number didn't explore what caused it. ...

.. "But it's significant, considering that African-Americans make up only 13.2 percent of the population, according to a 2014 report from the U.S. Census Bureau."

advocate.com/hiv-aids/2015/…

"In the minority stress model, “prejudice events” associated with a minority status, such as discrimination or expectations of prejudice, act as stressors in the lives of minority persons (Meyer 2003)."

"These stressors are unique and additive to everyday life stressors that all people experience. It is the excess stress associated with stigma and discrimination that contributes to the higher rates of mental health disorders often found in sexual minority population groups."

White Supremacy in the LGBT Community?

“When you look at the racism and discrimination that black gay and bisexual men experience from other gay and bisexual men, that is impossible,” reiterates Scales, who is a black gay man himself.

No Asians, no black people.

Why do gay people tolerate blatant racism theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The gay community often claims that the Civil Rights Movement was it's inspiration.

But, inspiration to do what?

Inspiration to create a gay community where black gay men are considered pariahs in their own gay community?

According to studies, black gay men are "the least desirable" to either 1). hang around in the gay community or 2). to date -- said by many (not all) Asian, Hispanic, and White gays.

"According to Krieger, discrimination is “a socially structured and sanctioned phenomenon, justified by ideology and expressed in interactions, among and between individuals and institutions, intended to maintain privileges for members of [certain] groups

at the cost of deprivation of others” (Krieger 2000:41). "

The research suggest that these racist and biased views (shaped by white supremacy) inform how many non-white gays engage black gay men.

The Deadly Consequences

The consequences of all this cultural gay apartheid; is that black gay men get hurt the most. It also informs how they date: They limit their dating networks. Black gay men (due to choice/bias/racism) tend to date a smaller pool of people -- mostly

... other blacks. And, research suggest this explains their high rates of HIV infections!

Dense sexual networks' behind high HIV rates of gay black men, study finds

Black men who have sex with men have higher HIV rates, despite less high-risk sexual activities. New research shows sexual networks are largely responsible.

nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-ou…

"The study, which was recently published in the Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes, surveyed MSM in Chicago and found young black MSM in the city are 16 times more likely to have HIV than their white counterparts, despite lower numbers of sexual partners, less unsafe

...sex and more frequent testing for HIV."

White Supremacy is a monster

"At the current rate of infection, nearly 60 percent of this group will test HIV-positive by their 40th birthday."

advocate.com/6in10men/2015/…

"I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, ...

... and for which neither I nor time nor history will EVER forgive them

... that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it."

James Baldwin,
The Fire 🔥 Next Time