Posted on 10/21/2009 10:43:22 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Black History Month should help break down homophobia by celebrating the sexuality of black heroes such as Malcolm
October is Black History Month in Britain a wonderful celebration of the huge, important and valuable contribution that black people have made to humanity and to popular culture.
It is also worth celebrating that many leading black icons have been lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), most notably the US black liberation hero Malcolm X. Other prominent black LGBTs include jazz singer Billie Holiday, author and civil rights activist James Baldwin, soul singer-songwriter Luther Vandross, blues singer Bessie Smith, poet and short story writer Langston Hughes, singer Johnny Mathis, novelist Alice Walker, civil rights activist and organiser of the 1963 March on Washington Bayard Rustin, blues singer Ma Rainey, dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey, actress, singer and dancer Josephine Baker, Olympic diving gold medallist Greg Louganis, singer and songwriter Little Richard, political activist and philosopher Angela Davis, singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman and drag performer and singer RuPaul.
Few of these prominent black LGBT achievers are listed on the most comprehensive UK Black History Month website, which hosts biographies of notable black men and women. In the section on people, only Davis is mentioned and her lesbianism is not acknowledged. The website fails to identify the vast majority of black public and historical figures who are LGBT. The Official Guide to Black History Month UK is equally remiss. Why these omissions? Black people are not one homogenous heterosexual mass. Where is the recognition of sexual diversity within the black communities and black history?
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Actually that is not true - you’ve posted things about being in love before. Not harping at you, just saying you openly flaunt your heterosexuality. ;^)
Or my old ladyfriend’s line:
“Sure, I’m bisexual. Buy me something nice and I get sexual.”
Bada-Bing!
“Its still news to me that Greg Louganis is black!”
I thought his name was spelled and pronounced as Greg Lousanis. :)
;)
“David Bowie is Bi-Sexual”. - girl in Saturday Night Fever
“Yeah, he likes men AND boys.” - Double J.
Yeah, in love, not positions and details.
But yeah, I’m joyously openly hetero. (grin)
Haha - did this article mention positions? lol I had to call you out on your statement though... lol
Black people? That sounds racist. I thought we were all just peoples?
For the record the rise of Malcolm X was one of the worst things to happen to America and the Civil Rights movement. Without the agitation and advocacy of violence by X and the other racist factions in America, the sixties wouldn’t have been nearly as violent, and things wouldn’t now be nearly as bad for black Americans. Martin Luther King was a genuine hero. Count me as someone who spits on the name of Malcolm X.
Pure BS....
Yeah girl, you got me on that one. ;D
I used to have a dog like that...had to
It is truly amazing.
Tell us something we don’t know. And next time you decide to sneak up on someone when they’re sleeping, have the common courtesy to use some Vaseline, will ya ?
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