Gay is NOT the new Black
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/gay_is_not_the_new_black.phpRev Irene Monroe
December 16, 2008 11:00 AM
If you are African American and gay, and fighting alongside your white LGBTQ brothers and sisters for queer civil rights, the notion that "Gay is the new black" is not only absurdly arrogant, it is also dangerously divisive.
In a presumably "post-racial" era with the country's first African American president-elect, it's easy for some to assume that race doesn't matter.
But when critiquing the dominant white LGBTQ community's ongoing efforts to gain marriage equality and its treatment of blacks as their second-class allies in the struggle, a reality check happens- both straight and queer African American communities bond together against their strategy for marriage equality.
