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Video Response to 5 Reasons Gay Is NOT The New Black by ItsGOTtobegroovy Let me state that I am profoundly surprised in a good way on the video I watched by ItsGOTtobegroovy’s 5 Reasons Gay is NOT The New Black, it wasn’t the same old: You can change gay but not black and they weren’t beaten and whipped. It was a pretty articulate case though I feel it was a way off from looking at the similarities between gay and black oppression from a historic point of view and one of simply: Same oppression, different group. That is the case with the whole gay v. black debate. I want to catch the 5 points that he mentioned in this video because it’s also important to state where I agree and where there’s a bit of disagreement. Oppression is as oppression does This is an interesting point as we’ve often seen the oppressed become the oppressors, when African decolonized we saw a lot of governments spring up and become as corrupt as the European nations they drove out. When The...

I am a young gay black man who had watched a parody of a young man coming out to his Mother the parody is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVAtVil3oWo you can pretty much tell it’s a parody especially given the wording that the ‘mother’ uses. However, the reality is that many parents who are religious may try to convince their child that the devil is in them or that gay people are horrible and need to be changed. But what is coming out about? Why is it necessary for those in our lives as gay people to know that we’re gay? What is all that about? Personally, I have always thought that one thing in any relationship that is central is honesty. I remember watching Mambo Italiano and hearing him explain that he wanted to tell his parents because he wanted them to know the real him. One person said to me: Now that I know you’re gay I can get to know who you are fully. It is that spirit which makes coming out so necessary for many people, we don’t desire—most of us to tell...

1996 The Supreme Court rules that making gays strangers to the law is unconstitutional in Romer v. Evans . They overturn Amendment 2 from CO which bans any municipality or the state from enacting sexual orientation protections and also bars the three branches of government from granting relief 2003 Lawrence v Texas establishes a right to privacy for consensual non commercial sex between the same gender 2004 MA Supreme Judicial Court says the mini DOMA the state has is unconstitutional, later that year 11 states put bans in their state constitutions 2008 FL & CA put a DOMA in their constitution and AR passes an adoption ban 2008 CT becomes another state to recognize marriage between gay and lesbian couples in their 4-3 Kerrigan decision 2009 Iowa becomes the first Midwestern state to rule that their statutory DOMA is unconstitutional in a unanimous ruling 2010 Ted Olson and David Boies come together to challenge Prop 8. In a 13 day case starting in Janu...

Hello All, Today I am going to talk about a oft neglected viewpoint that is easily seen when it’s looked at objectively. I submit to you that the closeted men henceforth referred to as DL men are as much a victim as the women are. I will also indict Ex gay movements as a driving force as well as societal stigma and a host of other reasons that I believe DL men are as much a victim as women are. I was gay since I was 7, and people would say: How do you know what you like if you never had a girl before? Well, I would flip that back and ask them how do they know they don’t like the same sex if they never tried it before? Now, if they tried it and found it wasn’t for them—great, we are not all that adventurous, I have been a vegetarian since birth and I will continue to be such. I grew up hearing that gay people were sick, perverts out to destroy the family, harm kids and weren’t at all respectable or worth looking at as role models. Now we have Ellen, The First Openly Lesbia...