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Originally posted by Sistermadly
Speaking only for myself, I'd take the course to understand the ways in which queer culture, specifically gay male culture, has influenced and continues to drive mainstream popular culture, even when queer society is still considered an underground, "fringe" subculture.
To use your logic, non-Black people shouldn't want to take an African American studies course, and non-White people shouldn't want to take a course on the Roman empire. What's wrong with learning as a means of developing an understanding of a culture other than your own?
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Taking an African-American studies course is not the same thing as "How to Be Black". The study of the culture is different than "how" to be that culture. Like I said, the course name isn't representative of what the class actually is.
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