1. Reconocimiento y Dolor: La Homofobia como un Problema Interno.
Muchas voces expresan una profunda preocupación por la homofobia y la transfobia que perciben como prevalentes en la comunidad negra, considerándolas un problema dañino que necesita ser abordado urgentemente desde dentro.
- Anyway…. Black folks really really really really really really really need to get their homophobia and transphobia in check. They only serve to cause harm to our community, that shit is not doing anybody any good.
- I love my people, but the homophobia and transphobia in the black community is depressing. I rather surround myself with black folks who are on the gender/sexuality spectrum.
- Homophobia in the black community really makes my stomach turn it’s painful man smh.
- In black communities we must combat homophobia. It’s something we as all black people must solve. Especially us black christian’s.
2. Orígenes y Responsabilidad: ¿Quién Perpetúa el Odio?
El debate sobre las raíces de la homofobia es intenso. Las opiniones apuntan a diversas fuentes, incluyendo la misoginia de los hombres negros, la complicidad de las mujeres negras, la influencia de la iglesia y el legado histórico de la supremacía blanca y la esclavitud.
- I gotta respectfully disagree. I think both black men and women play an equal part in homophobia in the black community. I think the homophobia from men have more violent consequences, but a lot of black boys grew up seeing women use homophobia as a tool to emasculate men.
- That homophobia? it’s white supremacist culture & cowardice.
- I agree. The black community has a lot of homophobia going on in certain pockets due to blind religious allegiance. I have it in my family. I aggravated the shit out of me.
- Homophobia is especially rife in the black community due to slave owners raping the biggest, strongest male slave in front of the entire population. Receptive gay sex, aka bottoming weak. This contributes to bottom shaming in the gay community. Slavery has done a number on us.
- Black men and black women blaming each other for perpetuating homophobia when in reality it’s the black church.
3. La Doble Batalla: Intersección de Racismo y Homofobia.
Las personas negras LGBTQ+ describen una lucha en dos frentes: enfrentan el racismo del mundo exterior y, simultáneamente, la homofobia y la transfobia dentro de su propia comunidad, lo que genera una sensación de aislamiento y conflicto constante.
- Being black & gay in america means fighting racism from the whites and fighting homophobia from the hetero blacks. This should not be life as we have known it. This belongs to all of us.
- Black lgbtq people face rejection, erasure, & the weight of proving they belong in their own community. Racism outside, homophobia inside: it’s a double battle. We fix it by unlearning, listening, & making space for all black voices.
- You see this a lot, mutualy within white lgbt spaces and black spaces - the white queers will be distrusting of black people because of their homophobia, the black people will be distruating of white queers for their racism. This is a path to mutual destruction - we stand together or die alone.
- Living in a world full of violent homophobia and racism as a gay, black man is truly terrifying.
4. Contrapuntos y Contextualización del Problema.
Algunas perspectivas desafían la idea de que la comunidad negra es excepcionalmente homofóbica, argumentando que este problema no es más prevalente que en la cultura blanca y que señalar a la comunidad negra de esta manera puede ser un "silbato de perro" racista.
- Ngl, if someone asks what’s the biggest issue in the black community, and you reply “homophobia” …… stfu forever.
- Black culture doesn't have a homophobia or transphobia problem white culture doesn't have. And tons of black folks are gay & trans. It's a racist dog whistle to say the collective of black people is particularly homophobic or transphobic.
- Lets also be clear, there isn't any indication that homophobia or transphobia is more prevalent in the black community. This is the call for every community, advocating for some of us or all of us?
- And black people are really not more homophobic than other groups. The black community does have issues with homophobia, but there's always a long & strong legacy of black queerness & queer black culture made a lot of contributions & tons of black people are queer & trans. .