Comments on: Inaugural speech divides black community

By: Queer Spring Revolution 2013

Queer Spring Revolution 2013 — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:30:46 +0000

The same book of Leviticus that Christians used as an excuse to enslave Africans and is used as an excuse to kill gay people is proof that LGBT people have been denied our human rights for more than 3000 years. So to say we have not waited long enough for human rights is heterosupremacist bullshit.

While Africans were enslaved, to be gay or lesbian was a crime.

After African-Americans were no longer enslaved, to be gay or lesbian was still a crime and LGBT Americans were denied the right to work, the right to marry, the right to a fear-free education, the right to fair housing.

When "Jim Crow" laws denied str8 African-Americans equal rights, LGBT Americans were still arrested for being gay, and still could not marry, work, have a fear-free education, and could be denied the right to fair housing.

When the African-American civil rights revolution happened, LGBT Americans were still arrested for being gay, and still could not marry, work, have a fear-free education, and could be denied the right to fair housing.

Until 2003 gay men and lesbians could still be arrested IN OUR HOMES and only because of Lawrence v Texas did that crime against our humanity end.

To say that our human rights are something we have to earn, or wait for, or are different than the human rights of str8 people is heteerosupremacist bullshit.

To paraphrase Dr. King who asked How Long Not Long.

HOW LONG?
TOO LONG – more then 3000 years of inequality is too FUCKING LONG.

It's time for a Queer Spring Revolution 2013 to end heterosupremacist apartheid once and for all. Our unalienable rights to marry, to housing, to work, to education, to health, to live, liberty and the pursuit of happiness did not end when our umbilical cords were cut.

HOW LONG?
TOO FUCKING LONG.

By: Yitzchak

Yitzchak — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 04:40:55 +0000

Aww, precious, aren’t you sweet? Tell you want, oh sagacious one: instead of playing internet psychologist (I’m actually quite happy, by the way, and extremely emotionally stable), why don’t you try to articulate, if you dare to play adult for a moment, exactly what it is about my “rant” that’s ridiculous? Or is lashing out at me without producing an intelligent counter-argument the best that you can do? Oh, and YOUR gay world might be a hot mess, but the state of MY gay world is just fine, thank you very much.

By: Nestle Quık

Nestle Quık — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:05:10 +0000

@Yitzchak: Grow up and stop wıth thıs rıdıculous rant. The only thıng I gather from your post ıs that you have a lot of emotıonal paın that wıll not be healıng anytıme soon. And for ANY gay man to preach about personal responsıbılıty consıderıng the state of our gay world ıs ınsane.

By: Richard Rosendall

Richard Rosendall — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:24:13 +0000

The struggle for equality is never finished. And each struggle is different. But we can learn from one another and work together. Picking up on Rev. Monroe's message, it is important to note that here in DC many African American ministers were part of the broad coalition of DC Clergy United for Marriage Equality. Here is a link to their declaration and their list of organizers and signatories: http://www.tinyurl.com/dcclergy4marriage.

By: Yitzchak

Yitzchak — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:54:15 +0000

They really need to get over themselves. Little gains that have been accomplished? Far be it for me to deny that white racism still erects structures that work to the deficit of many black people, but particular poor blacks, but let’s not act as if there hasn’t been real change in this country in the last 50 years. And maybe those ministers, while they decry structural impediments (which, again, do most definitely exist), should spend some time speaking to their communities about agency–about making smarter choices, about not having unprotected sex, about staying in school, etc,, etc. Oh, and furthermore, perhaps they might want to do something about the homophobia in their communities that creates an atmosphere of shame and helps to propel young black MSMs (because god forbid they identify as “gay”) to ignore the dangers of unprotected sex, which has caused HIV infections to sky-rocket among said demographic. Oy. And yes, I am a black, gay man, and I endorse this message.