What this shows us is that racism is underlying in our community. “It’s a little bit of chicken and egg, did Trump and Brexit make people more overtly racist, or did they create a platform for people to put their racism out there?” Marc asks. Trumpty Dumpty, as I call him, I suspect that he could be as racist as he likes, but most white gays here or in the USA wouldn’t give a damn, as long as they are OK.” Just log onto Grindr or catch white gay men when they are relaxed, and you’ll see and hear just how racist some of them can be. “I don’t think the Brexit rhetoric makes any difference. “Anybody who’s read the opening prologue in my book ‘God’s Other Children’ will know that racism in the UK gay community has always been there and always will be,” adds Vernal. Misogyny, sexism, racism, femaphobia, anti trans, etc, has been in the scene since before I was born, and they still exist.”
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“The gay scene has always been disenfranchised, discriminatory, childish, confused, full of shame, guilt and addictions,” says Manjinder. Is the current political environment encouraging racism to come to the surface?
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It’s not about the white LGBT scene saying ‘that’s their issue, they’ve got to break free from it’. I counsel so many who are suicidal, forced to marry someone of the opposite sex, or worse. “The BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) community are left alone dealing with the repercussions. “Yes we have LGBT rights, but only for the white community,” acknowledges Manjinder Sidhu, LGBT activist, life coach, and author of Bollywood Gay. A white gay man cannot comprehend, or more importantly, feel the experience of being black and gay – and the ‘double minority’ status and discrimination that come with it.” “It scars to the very soul and carries an impact akin to the death of someone close you will forever relive the time and place of its occurrence, especially how it made you feel, the hurt and damage to your dignity and self esteem. “Racism isn’t just a word, it’s an experience,” adds Vernal Scott, author, HIV activist, and local government diversity lead officer. We remain sexist, we remain misogynistic.” We bring all of our prejudices into that world.
World events impact us as gay men regardless of our ethnicity or nationality. “It is a microcosm of the wider society,” says Marc Thompson, co-editor of BlackOut UK and co-founder of, on racism in the gay community. The question is: are we really that shocked to learn that Britain’s gay scene is so racist? In fact, in FS magazine’s latest survey of over 850 readers, 75% of black guys, 81% of east and south-east Asian guys, and 86% of south Asian guys said they have personally experienced racism on Britain’s gay scene. But the sad reality is that gay and bi men of colour who face homophobia and racism in the wider world can very often find themselves subjected to racism from within the gay community. And here in Britain, the Guardian newspaper reported that homophobic attacks in the UK rose 147% in the three months after last summer’s Brexit vote, based on findings by LGBT anti-violence charity Galop and on reports of hate crimes made to UK police.įor those who belong to more than one minority group, this threat can be multiplied. In the United States, the Trump administration has begun implementing some of Donald Trump’s more extreme campaign promises, including withdrawing guidelines that relate to bathroom access for transgender students. Lately it feels increasingly like the LGBTQ+ community is living on a knife-edge – not only in places like Russia or Egypt but also much closer to home.
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OutLife does not condone it but felt we needed to present the responses honestly.īeing a minority is sometimes like being in a slasher movie: just when you think the threat has passed, a crazed serial killer leaps out of nowhere and takes a bloodthirsty swipe at you. WARNING: some of content in this feature may be offensive to some. How do we stop racism in the gay community?
The LGBT HERO Positive Pub Crawl | Thursday, 11 March 2022