Time to stop the gay v. black competition

[Natasha]

Time to stop the gay v. black competition

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Fri Dec 12, 2008 at 19:31:28 PM EST

It seems as though, after Prop. 8, there's been a whole lot of conversation on the intersections between race and sexuality.

I wonder if we've learned anything. Or, maybe we've all be foaming at the mouth with absolutely zero listening capacity.

In a recent Bilerico post, "No on 'Gay is Black,'" I wasn't surprised to see the conversation very quickly turn into a competition of which group has suffered the most. It's as if civil rights should be doled out on the basis of the pain inflicted rather than on the basis of what is actually right and wrong inside the legal and moral framework of our Constitution and national ideals.