Racism in the "Gay Community"

[Attention Whore]

Do you think there is? and if you do, what do you think about it?

Or are you completely oblivious.

OR are you one of the one's who discriminate and limit yourself from certain ethnic groups? If you are, why do you believe that only a man of a certain skin tone is "right?", if you haven't opened your mind to exploring different possibilities?

It just blows my mind how someone can write off a whole ethnic group based on their skin color, not just on a "dating" level, but from interacting at all.


I'd like your thoughts, and go!  

[Le Scratch]

We are people and as such there will be discrimination and racism within our community, just as there is in every other community - I've even seen homosexual people who openly discriminate against those who are of other orientations. All we can do is try our best to rectify it and be better than those who act as such.  

[Gordums]

As Scratch said, there's in racism in every community.

It's very prevalent in our community, and honestly it doesn't make sense. As a group that has fought against oppression and hate, our community has hate directed towards other communities and that's hypocritical on so many levels. It bugs me when people say racism and homophobia are not the same because that in itself is homophobic or racist because you don't want to associate your problems with the other community.

 

[Harmony8910]

Le Scratch

We are people and as such there will be discrimination and racism within our community, just as there is in every other community - I've even seen homosexual people who openly discriminate against those who are of other orientations. All we can do is try our best to rectify it and be better than those who act as such.

Yes, I've seen discrimination both in orientation and race in the gay community. Why? I have no idea why. We are in the gay community. We get discriminated against every day. The last thing we should be doing is discriminating eachother. That just breaks apart our close-knit family. No one has a right to judge, but most of the people in the gay community have been judged. We shouldn't be discriminating against anyone, especially if we know how it feels.  

[The Laziest Czar]

Personally, I think if said "racism" exists in the community, it'd be the supporters and those who're not actually "in" the community. I honestly don't fight for equality, because I know it's pointless. I'm not trying to depress anyone, but it's just reality. We'd need someone of LGBT in Congress. Thats usually how a race got accepted, so I'm pretty sure it'd be the same with orientation. Anyway, back to my first statement. I could be totally wrong, I dunno. It just feels to me a supporter would get angry at a straight person for... Well being straight. I've actually seen that before, and I kinda wanted to scream. Thats all for me, g'day.

 

[Shilberu Erikku]

Who says a gay guy can't be a racist a*****e?  

[Attention Whore]

@Le Scratch - That's basically the underlying statement.

@Gordums - So hypocritical. On a related note to racism and homophobia, some people say that it's the same with not being attracted to one's skin color as the same to not being attracted to a woman. "It's just a preference." And that infruiates me, one's skin color is definitely not related to having the opposite sex's anatomy.

@Northe - I didn't quite understand, "a supporter would get angry at a straight person for... Well being straight."
Where's the race issue there? Elaborate?

I just find racism to be a social impediment within any community, but even more so in the gay community because we as LGBT people, as @Harmony8910 said, already knows how it feels to be discriminated against but even so, some of us still discriminate against others of the same sexual orientation based upon skin tone. (Sorry I probably sound redundant.)  

[Gordums]

Attention Whore

@Gordums - So hypocritical. On a related note to racism and homophobia, some people say that it's the same with not being attracted to one's skin color as the same to not being attracted to a woman. "It's just a preference." And that infruiates me, one's skin color is definitely not related to having the opposite sex's anatomy.

That's so annoying. People need to stop seeing sexuality and sexual attraction as reducible and categorical, but rather see it as a fluid spectrum