Where does the myth of the "homophobic Black community" come from?

[Homer Simpson]

cacs pointing fingers at others again

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Dudes in here making up shyt. Every Black community that had homosexuals in them knew who they were and treated them like men if they were masculine, or females if they acted that way. Other than that, we gave no fukks about them or their lifestyle. We just didn't participate in it. We didn't ostracize them or anything dumb like that. Basically, we treated them just like any other Black person.​

 

[FeverPitch2]

So you're saying Gay black men in Black communities have it easier than gay white dudes in white communities?

The only gay Black man I know having a hard time because he's gay is the French actor Juicy Smulliet, and that's because he attacked himself for being Black and gay.

 

[GMoney]

Gay dudes in the hood have it harder than gay dudes in white communities.

Blacks tend to be more conservative

This is not true at all!

The simple answer to this is that white gays were able to establish gay enclaves in the US that they could go to away from their homophobic upbringings.

Black gays had to stay in the black community or live on the margins of the white gay community.

Black gay/trans communities in places like San Francisco were actually uprooted and destroyed by gay white yuppies, so black gays were never able to form their own similar communities back in day and had to make due in the black community which IN COMPARISON TO WHITES, was a lot more accepting. The social dynamics were entirely different.

Tariq's Buck Breaking doc can't come soon enough to put an end to this lie.

 

[Piff Perkins]

I heard cac-caping Andrew Schulz run with this and he claimed it was because of religion.
That statement proves that he didn't hang with Black folk growing up because the Black church is damn near Black Gay Headquarters.
Aint no lynch mobs of Black folks killing or brutalizing gays, lesbians, or trannies.
Motherfukkers keep on with this shyt. From bitter broads on Twitter, to dudes like Malik Yoba and Lee Daniels.
Slowly "Black community" is being modified into "straight Black men".
Where did this shyt come from? Who's idea was it to blame us for all of LGBT problems?

Since when are lynch mobs and physical brutalization the only qualifiers for homophobia (or racism or anything else)?

You know where else there is fierce homophobic sentiment? The Hispanic and Italian communities. You know what? The same reason: higher than average religious sentiments. If you're black, you probably grew up in or near "the church." If you're Mexican, the majority of your family is almost certainly Catholic; same with Italians. This isn't rocket science, and why are you taking it so personal?

One of the major reasons homosexuality has become more accepted in our society is because the amount of people who identify as religious is decreasing. People go to church less, they're less serious about bible bullshyt, etc. But the rate of religious identity is dropping slower in black and Hispanic communities.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

So you're saying Gay black men in Black communities have it easier than gay white dudes in white communities?

If he won't say it, I will

Yes. Gay Black people aren't maltreated by straight Black people. Sure, you'll have some a$$holes who are bigoted, but for the most part, we accepted them for who and what they were.

shyt, most of the Black women in our community got their hair done by gay Black dudes.​

 

[98Ntu]

I believe we could treats gays with more kindness in the black community, however the black community isn’t the most homophobic community imo. What about Arabs? What about the Jewish community? Homophobia is rife in these communities according to Middle Eastern and Jewish friends of mine.

Blacks are just an easy target and we rarely fight back, so that’s a large part of why we get that label. Also, black masculinity is deeply offensive to many people. Even some black men on this forum try to censor, pathologize and undermine it!

In my university, a lot of white gays are always talking about toxic masculinity and they always bring up black males. I think we make them feel insecure and they have to make that into our fault somehow lol.

That being said, we as black people could be nicer and more compassionate towards gay black people. They have it hard in their own unique and painful way and calling them “f@gs”, sissies and weak is wrong. Gay black men are my brothers and gay black women are my sisters.

 

[Savvir]

If he won't say it, I will

Yes. Gay Black people aren't maltreated by straight Black people. Sure, you'll have some a$$holes who are bigoted, but for the most part, we accepted them for who and what they were.​

Growing up in the bay I used to see gay nikkas getting mobbed on for no reason. This is adolescent/teenager years. White kids looked like their communities were more accepting of their flamboyance but black community gays still had to be able to be "hard" when necessary



Another question.. is it easier for straight black males in black communities than straight white males in white communities?

 

[Barlow]

You would think if the black community was so much more homophobic and intolerant

There wouldn’t be a rampant presence of OVERLY FLAMBOYANT gay nikkas, girly nikkas, lesbians, and non-black gay people who slum in the black community and appropriate mannerisms. All up in the church and other black spaces.


The white community JUST started embracing lgbt shyt and even then they still slum around black people. You can’t go around white people in some booty shorts, with green hair, screaming “yaaaaaas”

Do we even to speak on Asians, Hispanics, arabs?

 

[Black_Panther_JS]

They think cuz we say “that’s gay” or “no homo” we hate gay people

 

[StretfordRed]

Myth?!

Err listen to hip-hop, reggae or just read TheColi

Mythhhhhh?!

 

[StretfordRed]

Myth!

 

[hayesc0]

It's not a myth but I think it exist in every community for the most part.

 

[FeverPitch2]

Myth!

Your argument is poor.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Growing up in the bay I used to see gay nikkas getting mobbed on for no reason. This is adolescent/teenager years. White kids looked like their communities were more accepting of their flamboyance but black community gays still had to be able to be "hard" when necessary

Around here, gay dudes were the ones doing Black women's hair/nails/etc. If we knew someone was gay, we'd make fun of them just like we'd make fun of anyone else in our community. It was just part of growing-up. I got made-fun of because I was into books. I made fun of Steve because he liked dudes. Didn't stop us from playing Little League or trading baseball cards. Some of the most 'thorough' looking/acting dudes around here were gay.​

Another question.. is it easier for straight black males in black communities than straight white males in white communities?

Yup. Go to ANY club/hair salon and you'll see for yourself.​