There's an excellent book by Delroy Constatine-Simms called "The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in the Black Community." It deals with a great many aspects of the black community and how/why some black gay men and lesbians feel ostracized, and how others make their way within black communities.
I'm not going to preach tolerance, because I think
respect is far more important. You don't have to like gay people or what they do, but recognize their basic humanity and it'll go a long, long way.
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Originally posted by DOVE1920:
I'm not sure if this has already been discussed but why is homosexuality so hard to discuss within the Black community? Do we as a community need to evaluate our ideas of gender and sexuality? Is it our job as an organization to help bring some of these issues to light? While in college I've had the oppurtunity to discuss homosexuality with gay Black men and women and it made me very sad. Not only did they feel rejected from the Black community on campus but from the GLBT org. on campus.
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