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Another Day, Another Coming Out Story Between Johnny Weir http://www.afterelton.com/people/2011/01/johnny-weir-finally-really-out and Kevin Spacey, 2011 has started off as an excellent year for coming out. This early momentum has been continued with the news that Boston Herald journalist Steve Buckley has acknowledged that he’s gay in his most recent column Buckley joins LZ Granderson as the [...]
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Homophobia in sports is a problem. Despite increasing acceptance from the larger society, there are currently no openly gay male athletes in American team sports. Which makes Glenn Burke’s story so historic. Burke was a wildly talented multi-sport athlete who was compared to Willie Mays when he debuted with baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers. Yet his [...]
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Black people are stereotyped as uniformly hostile to gay people, but it does not take much research to disprove that notion. Essence Magazine, the leading magazine for African-American women, has made history by publishing a slideshow of a lesbian wedding. The lucky couple featured on the site are Aisha Mills and Danielle Moody, from Washington, [...]
A major criticism among the black left is that President Obama is able to get away with acts that would incur the wrath of the public if committed by a white person. Examples include his tendency to abandon independent-minded black people for political expediency (Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, Shirley Sherrod), publicly shaming the black community [...]
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In spite of the progress made towards eliminating discrimination, there is plenty of evidence that the highly anticipated “post racial” era is more wishful thinking than reality. Consider the double standard on some recent news items: Flash mobs are innovative and fun gatherings when it’s white youth taking over public places. When black people organize [...]
June 27 is the 41st anniversary of Stonewall, the event that marked the beginning of the modern gay rights struggle. Cities across America are holding their Pride celebrations in accordance with this historic date. To commemorate the event, The Grio has published their list of rising LGBT leaders. The article is unique because unlike most [...]
Several months ago, I wrote about a BBC poll question asking if gays should be executed. It seems that CNN is determined to show American media can be as homophobic as its British counterpart. On March 6, anchor Kyra Phillips had a discussion on whether homosexuality could be cured. Its guest was noted ex-gay Richard [...]
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Media visibility is an issue I feel strongly about, as the representation of people in popular culture reveals much about society’s feeling towards that group. That is why I was pleased to read about Flipping The Script: Beyond Homophobia in Black Hollywood, a panel sponsored by the Writers Guild of America to discuss homophobia and [...]
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A piece of gay history was recently made available online. CBS aired The Homosexuals on March 7, 1967. Hosted by Mike Wallace, it was the first major television special dedicated to homosexuality. Considered a pioneering broadcast at the time (homosexuality was still classified as a mental illness in 1967), viewing it today is a bittersweet [...]
Positive Black Gay Representation In The Media
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