I read an excellent article once about gay and transvestite black males growing up in the hood. Based on many interviews, the author said that many of them were simply nice boys, well brought up by their single mothers or grannies, who didn’t want to get into the gangs and thug-life scene. If they started cross-dressing or being flamboyantly gay, they would be left alone by the thug down the street - who would rape anybody of any sex if he could, but gets his status by raping females and producing children to be supported by the state.
Based on those I’ve met here and there, I’d say that’s pretty accurate. The problem is that it has now become political.
Urkel on steroids. Sad.
This phenomenon was observed by anthropologist Elliot Liebow in his ground-breaking book, Tally's Corner. What's sad is that the ghetto behaviors of the African-American underclass have remained so much the same after the Great Society program has poured $20 TRILLION primarily into the A-A community.
Liebow was a first-generation American of Russian Jewish extraction with a swarthy complexion and dark curly hair. He spent 18 months hanging out in a black DC neighborhood to research his doctoral thesis, on which he later based Tally's Corner. It was, and is, a very compelling book. Here's a 2011 article about it:
44 years later, Tally's Corner is revealed