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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it concerning that LGBT issues get folded in with racial issues as a disguise.
The Respect for Marriage seemed to do just that. There was a very tiny threat to the concept of interracial marriage. However, the LGBT community grabbed it and packaged it along with gay marriage to get the agenda going. 
In this case, somehow, understanding African American culture also involves understanding gay issues. [/quote]

Because of course there are no black gays. [/quote]

DP.  Of course there are black gays.  And white gays, Hispanic gays, Asian gays, etc.  What is your point?[/quote]

DP, but all you dopes and Floridians who don’t know shit about Black history need to STFU.

The Harlem Renaissance in Black Queer History
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/harlem-renaissance-black-queer-history

[i]African American literary critic and professor Henry Louis Gates once reflected that the Harlem Renaissance was “surely as gay as it was Black, not that it was exclusively either of these.” Gates’s comments point to the often-overlooked place of the Harlem Renaissance within queer history.

The Harlem Renaissance, a literary and cultural flowering centered in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood that lasted from roughly the early 1920s through the mid-1930s, marked a turning point in African American culture. Developments from Zora Neale Hurston’s folklore-influenced fiction to Duke Ellington’s colorful orchestrations reflected an assertive and forward-thinking Black identity that philosopher Alain Locke dubbed “The New Negro.”

Black queer artists and intellectuals were among the most influential contributors to this cultural movement. Like other queer people in early twentieth century America, they were usually forced to conceal their sexualities and gender identities. Many leading figures of the period, including Countee Cullen, Bessie Smith, and Alain Locke, are believed to have pursued same-sex relationships in their private lives, even as they maintained public personas that were more acceptable to mainstream audiences. From a modern vantage point, the work of these artists and their peers is part of the foundation of modern Black LGBTQ art.[/i][/quote]

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