I don't agree with marches for straight pride. I don't see what it would accomplish. In those all white school districts or the ones where MAGA is strong, their strategy is to get their own elected to school boards. They also look at EVERY single book the school district is using. They ask their kids what did they talk about in class. They know who is teaching their kids and they look at those teachers FB pages and social media.
99 percent of Black parents have no idea what their kids book look like or what's in them. We don't form groups of concerned that blacks that can go to school board meetings like the MAGA ones do.
Locally we don't do the work as a collective. Bottom line.
As far as the media, we are an easy target. As a community we have been far more accepting of our gays than latinos, whites or asians. We have always had the gay hairdresser at the women's salon and the gay choir director. Harlem has had a gay, trans ball and beauty pageant going back decades. RuPaul came out of there. We fully supported a gay reparations candidate.
Find the equivalent openly gay role in the White, Asian or Latino communities? There are none. They aren't in Chinatown, Koreatown, east LA, Little Havana, Little Saigon in Orange county, California. West Hollywood isn't the white community. West Hollywood are white gays who had to start their own community to function openly. Most of them aren't native Los Angelenos. They come from all over America. When I worked with gay white men in LA in the office 90% were from conservative areas: Missouri, Ohio, etc. They came to LA to live openly.
When Hollywood is pushing gay characters on us, respond back in social media, create hashtags. Get the conversation going on twitter, youtube, Facebook. Accept the fact as a collective we will be labeled homphobic. It's worth it way more to be heard that we aren't taking that sh*t.
99 percent of Black parents have no idea what their kids book look like or what's in them. We don't form groups of concerned that blacks that can go to school board meetings like the MAGA ones do.
Locally we don't do the work as a collective. Bottom line.
As far as the media, we are an easy target. As a community we have been far more accepting of our gays than latinos, whites or asians. We have always had the gay hairdresser at the women's salon and the gay choir director. Harlem has had a gay, trans ball and beauty pageant going back decades. RuPaul came out of there. We fully supported a gay reparations candidate.
Find the equivalent openly gay role in the White, Asian or Latino communities? There are none. They aren't in Chinatown, Koreatown, east LA, Little Havana, Little Saigon in Orange county, California. West Hollywood isn't the white community. West Hollywood are white gays who had to start their own community to function openly. Most of them aren't native Los Angelenos. They come from all over America. When I worked with gay white men in LA in the office 90% were from conservative areas: Missouri, Ohio, etc. They came to LA to live openly.
When Hollywood is pushing gay characters on us, respond back in social media, create hashtags. Get the conversation going on twitter, youtube, Facebook. Accept the fact as a collective we will be labeled homphobic. It's worth it way more to be heard that we aren't taking that sh*t.