An adult film star calling his barber the N-word on social media.
An Instagrammer posting a photo of himself wearing blackface.
A hotel guest implying white privilege should automatically grant him pool access.
There seems to be no shortage of gay men acting racist on social media. Sometimes they apologize for their behavior afterwards. Often they don’t.
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Here’s the one good thing about racism: It can be corrected! It’s totally, 100% possible for a person who once held a racist belief to have their minds and hearts opened. All it takes is a little education. And, of course, a willingness to change.
Unfortunately, not everybody wants their mind opened. Plenty of people seem perfectly content living in their racist little bubbles where it’s them against the world.
Here are 5 unapologetic bad seeds chose to stay racist rather than reform. We believe there’s still hope for them yet!
Robert Ortiz
Proud gay Trump supporter Robert Ortiz became Internet Enemy #1 earlier this month when a 16-minute video of him screaming racial slurs at his Lyft driver went viral. As a result, Ortiz was fired from his job. In an interview with his local news station, he dismissed allegations of racism by saying he was drunk at the time.
Related: Hey, viral Lyft guy: ‘I’m not racist’ means ‘Of course, you are!’
Chris Donohoe
In August 2018, Chris Donohoe claimed he was kicked out of the pool at the Wynn Las Vegas for being gay. In a video posted to his Facebook page, Donohoe lamented about how his white privilege wasn’t recognized by hotel staff, saying: “I’m a white guy and I have power in society and I still felt completely powerless.” Needless to say, the comment about his racial superiority didn’t go over so well.
Related: Can someone please school gay Speedo activist Chris Donohoe on white privilege?
Antonio Biaggi
In August 2017, adult film performer Antonio Biaggi fired off a series of unprovoked racist tweets against Beyoncé, saying the singer is just like “any black girl” and calling her fans “stupid” and “a big crew of queens”. When people took offense to his comments, 39-year-old Biaggi told them to keep “twerking to pay for their KFC.”
Related: Gay adult film star Antonio Biaggi goes on racist rant against Beyoncé fans
Zachary Crane
After taking heat for posting a picture of himself wearing blackface while dressed as Storm from X-Men last Halloween, the 30-year-old Instagrammer refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing and instead went on the defensive, saying: “I’m fully aware that everyone is crying over my costume and calling me a racist piece of sh*t… like seriously. Just to let everyone know, I love Storm. Have ever since I was a kid.”
(P.S. If you need a lesson on the deeply racist history of blackface, here’s a start.)
Related: This gay Instagrammer loves Trump and wore blackface for Halloween, insists he’s not racist
Bruno Bernal
In July 2018, adult film performer Bruno Bernal was used the N-word in his Instagram story to denigrate his African-American barber. After Queerty called him out for it, Bruno, who once appeared in a Donald Trump-themed MAGA porno, called our site “trash”, “stupid”, and a “sh*t blog” and telling critics to “f*ck off” and to “unfollow + block” if they had an issue with his racism.
Related: N-word dropping adult film star Bruno Bernal attacks Queerty for daring to call him racist
Bromancer7
Well Biaggi ain’t wrong. Just sayin’
Godabed
He said way more than that, about black people not about just Beyonce, he is a racist.
jjose712
I suppose he said way more than that because frankly not liking Beyonce doesn’t make you racist
frankcar1965
And to think he is Puerto Rican who even if he doesn’t look like it has a good chance of having African blood, go figure.
Tony1129
Well that’s your small opinion, this Biaggi idiot has way to much time on his hands to be worried about someone who could care less about him. So petty and unneccessary.
Food for thought, when you talk about anyone, famous or not, you give them more power and attention that keeps them on top. I’m just saying.
Goforit
Oh gee, what a surprise . Three of the five openly support Trump. Funny how racism ant Trump seem to so often go together.
GayEGO
Good comment! I saw the first one supported Trump and thought the same thing! Maybe they helped Cesar Sayok make those fake bombs!
batesmotel
The only problem with your “theory” is that there was only one in the bunch that was an alleged Trump supporter, the rest were not, but you let them slide because they weren’t Trump supporters. The bigger irony is that on gay apps like Grindr and Scruff, I’ve seen more racism there than from Trump supporters combined. Nice try though. 😉
GayEGO
Rather disgusting. As a gay man I thought these guys would have learned about being a minority and what it means to be discriminated against. Too bad for them!
TheBigOne
That’s where the “white privilege” part comes in.
dean089
It might seem that way, especially to non-gays, but being gay doesn’t mean you stop being whatever else you are.
JH0607
People need to stop acting as if racism is a bad thing. Racism helps accentuate our differences while keeping the races pure. It’s all good.
Kangol
You need psychological help, and quickly. There are NO “pure races.” None. Zero. Racism and white supremacy are abominable. Seriously, get some mental health help, and pronto.
Juanjo
There is no such thing as a race in a scientific context. It is a social context which has no significant meaning. Depending on who is using it, the meaning changes constantly. In terms of DNA, no one is “pure” any race. Pale skin is more common the farther north one goes in the world because the amount of sunlight available decrease and the body has issues absorbing enough vitamins, eg vitamin D, for the people to survive as a breeding population. It has nothing to do with anything else. Not to mention the classifications typically used for Caucasian vs Negroid vs Mongoloid [as the old racist classification goes] is mixed up. People of the Indian subcontinent are Caucasians as much as Slavs, Nordic types, Celts, or Italians. Yet among proponents of racial theory, some of those groups are inferior while others are not. Even the Nazi Party in Germany could never develop any actual scientifically based manner of distinguishing between the “races”. That is why they chose a photo of a Jewish baby based upon appearance to represent the perfect German baby. That is why they kidnapped children with blue eyes and blond hair in countries with “inferior races” like Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and elsewhere, to raise a “pure blooded” Aryans in Germany.
frankcar1965
Troll alert!!! Very blatant at that, don’t fall for it!
armpit44
You have a very seriously messed up view of the world. Your view of yourself and others means that so far, you’re a failure as a human being. Your only hope is to Google; “How to unlearn racism”, and then really get in there.
Or go on being worthless.
Tony1129
If I could reach through this Android, your ass would be on the floor. It’s people like you who help make this world shitty! You need serious help because you have lost your marbles.
StupidBoy
The concept of a unified white race did not achieve universal acceptance in Europe when it first came into use in the 17th century, or in the centuries afterward. The strongest proponents of racialism in 20th-century Europe, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, regarded some European peoples such as Slavs as racially distinct from themselves.
Geeker
Pretty on the outside full of shit on the inside.
TheBigOne
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. These guys aren’t pretty, inside nor out. They’re nothing more than statistics…and give us gays a bad name.
draven
These guys hate themselves. To the ones with money….money doesn’t buy happiness. The porno dude isn’t even gay. He’s married to a woman. I feel sorry that these men feel this way. Sad. Losers.
Tombear
Racism is the poison of society. If we had a racist free society half of the crap happening in our society wouldn’t happen! The sad thing is there is nothing we as the American people can do about it! Ignorant gay people exist and always will.
romerocyn
You are so right. Racism and predjuice are tearing our culture apart. It seems, though, that only whites are labled as racists. We seldom hear about the predjuice of blacks. Some comments of Maxine Waters smacks of racism. Thinking of Al Sharpton racing down and condeming a bunch of white guys for raping a black dancer that was hired. As it turns out the claim was proven to be false, yet Sharpton felt no need to apologize. How often do we hear of a white cop shooting a black man. When a cop is shot by a black, they seldom idenify the shooter as black.
All of this is to say that racism and bias cuts through all ethnic groups so there is plenty of blame to go around. Whites seem to be the ones who who are most often identified as racists. Things have never been perfect in this area, but our president seems to be at the root of the license to hate.
Kangol
Interpersonal bias is usually the result of ignorance and fear; racism and white supremacy usually result from fear of loss of power and privilege, and, in the cases of people like Ortiz and Biaggi, who are both partially of African descent, of self-hate born out of colonized mentalities. It’s OK to criticize Beyoncé or Justin Bieber or anyone, but when you engage in stereotypes, fearmonger, and dismiss or denounce entire races of people, ethnicities and religions wholesale, you have a serious problem. And it should be said again, as any DNA test will show, there are no pure races. None. Not even if you’re talking about Scandinavians, or people in sub-Saharan central Africa, or living on the plains of Mongolia. None. We are all human beings. It’s not that hard to grasp, though it does make some people very uncomfortable and unhappy.
rray63
I’m curious and I’m sure that my asking this will garner many nasty remarks, but, why is there never discussion of black racism towards whites? Or are you going to tell me what one person on Twitter said, only whites can be racists, no one else? I think the call of racism is over used these days. Are there still racists, or course. But as a percentage of our population it probably ranks at like 1/25% of 1% of the total population. I think as a society we just need to ignore the bigots and go about our business. When we give their vile words power, we are giving them exactly what they want. Think about how much joy they get from all this discussion among us. Okay, now you can call me names. When I have my Christmas and Mom’s birthday party pictures this year, she will be 80, it sure won’t look like what I’ll be called for asking a pertinent question. Love you all!
Juanjo
I just love a good tu quoque argument. Answer me this, Ray, when you were 8-years old and your mom caught you trying to run the cat through the drying cycle on her dryer, did you try to evade punishment by pointing out that someone else, say a sibling had done something similar or worse and not punished as she intended to punish you? If so, how did that work out for you? Did she still punish you? I ask because that kind of “whataboutism” deflection argument is amusing in an 8-year old but is rather pathetic in a grownup human being.
You are just trying to deflect from the issue pointed out here – that these guys are shit stains on the boxer briefs of humanity. [Although I do cut Zachary Crane a minor amount of slack since he was trying to dress as a specific comic book chararter he claims to have loved from his childhood.]
DK
Aside from history demonstrating that bigotry must be confronted and not ignored, it gives me great joy to call out the deploraflakes for the racist trash they are, so I’m going to keep doing that.
SamDixon3972
rray63 asked why, in his words “there is never discussion of black racism towards whites.” On the surface that seems like a fair question, but as one looks deeper into the situation one realizes that given the history of this country, and even the context of today provides a clear answer. It is not a fair question because “things are not and have never been equal.”
Do I really NEED to comment on the history of slavery in this country starting from 1619 to 1865 — 246 years of legal slavery of Black folks by white slave owners? Or to comment on the legal systems of Jim Crow, red-lining, lynching and legalized prejudice – let alone the myriads acts of simple prejudice? That it would not be until 1965 that Civil Rights laws were changed, but there were still white folks standing in front of the school doors baring Black children from attending! Do I really need to remind you about the Black man who was stabbed with the nation’s flag on the streets of Boston by a white man? There are photos!
Do I need to remind you of the official and un-official acts of racism, discrimination and prejudice practiced by city, state and federal government agencies, and scores of private businesses? Those signs reading “White” and “Black” over public bathrooms, railroad cars, and businesses of all types did not just “magically” appear. They were put in place by plenty of White folks. They even designated which sections of the public transit bus a person could sit!
Do I really need to mention the recent case of a suburban community closing its swimming pool so that Black teenagers could not swim there? Or the cases of white men simply shooting Black teenagers who were simply going about their business? Or the myraid instances of white persons calling police on their cell-phones about Black folk who were simply going about their business – at the colleges they attend, at barbeques, etc? Then there is the recent case this week of a white racist person simply walking into a store and shooting two random Black persons in the back of the head dead! Do I really have to mention the repeated instances of cop killings of un-armed Black folks – usually by white cops?
Now it is just not about Black folks? Do I really need to remind you of the history of prejudice and other deadly acts upon Native Americans in this country? Did you forget the numerous killings, the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Trail of Tears upon the Cherokee nation, the forced migration to Oklahoma. Did you forget the breaking of numerous treaties with the Native American tribes through-out this country’s growth? Yep, that’s a lot of white folks in charge.
Or should I mention the Chinese Exclusion Act restricting immigration of Asians to this country? Or the quota’s on entry for scores of non-white immigrants to this country? They continue to today! Or would it be ‘too much” to mention the Japanese internment camps established within this country? There’s even a claim of discrimination againt Asian Americans at one of the nation’s top universities in court today!
Now some of you are going to claim, “that’s old history”, and “get over it.” Numerous repeated “isolated incidents” do form a pattern – whether one chooses to see it or not.
I did not yet get to acts of prejudice and discrimination toward women, gays, queer folk and others. Do I really need to go over the history of AIDS in this country, and its response by government and other private companies? Or the issues related to military service and gay folk?
Now should I just talk about how our current president constantly denigrates the achievements of this nation’s first Black president, and went on a years-long rant attempting to deny even the basic citizenship of this man? Our current president has had six bankruptcies and other business failures – such that voters in his home state New York did not vote for him to achieve office. Should I mention how this president in his formative years was sued by the federal government for housing discrimination in New York City – not wanting to rent apartments to Blacks and other minorities? Other private landlords when cited choose to comply with federal non-discrimination laws. Not The Donald! And yes, he lost his case! Or should I mention the continual racism shown by this president toward Black and other minority military personnel and their familes when a military member died in the line of duty? Or should I mention the comments of this president toward entire countries and a whole continent – “shit-holes” – and his preference for “Nordic” countries? Or should I even mention the immigration policies and actions promoted by this president toward whole groups of people based upon prejudice and racism? Should I mention the constant race baiting of this president? Or is that too much? Yep, there’s a lot of white folks who agree with him – they attend his rallies & support him in online rants.
Do I really, really need to mention the repeated acts of Republicans to restrict the right to vote. And yes, they continue to try to restrict the right to vote in numerous ways. Generally the Republican party is a majority white politican party that has not been favorable to the interests of Blacks and other minorities. Should I mention, Willy Horton? Should I mention of the actions of the Republican Tea Party that burned images of President Obama in their protests? Or the actions of those alt-right Neo-Nazis and skin-heads in Charlottesville, Virginia. Remember the August 2017 rally that drew hundreds of white nationalists to the college town protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a military man who took up arms against his own country. I’m sure that you did not forget that our current president high-lighted and praised the actions of those “alt-right” during the torch-lit march that killed a woman.
So no, it is not just “vile words.” One could claim that “freedom”, “liberty”, “arrested”, “prejudice”, “racism”, “lynching”, “killed by cop but innocent of any crime” – are all just words. Or how about “interned at a concentration camp”, “denied medical treatment”, “job discrimination”, or “killed just for going to the store for iced tea and candy.” All of those are just words, also.
romerocyn
Juanjo, I don’t think that is what rray63 is saying. I think his point is that until everyone accepts their responsibility for bias and racism, then it doesn’t end. All racism cannot be placed conveniently
on the shoulders of whites. Clearly fault can be attributed to whites, but the level of rhetoric is amped up these days thanks to a president who would rather divide than unite the country.
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Tigertail60
I tend to think that mr. zachary crane, who I had never heard of before, had innocent intentions with his costumed character, unaware that in dressing the way he did, he would cause quite a stir in this hypersensitized age we live in. Too bad he is a CHUMP supporter. Someone should really take him aside and explain a couple things to him. And, by the way, blacks can be just as racist as whites. Just go and live in Fort Lauderdale/Broward County and see for yourself. Black racism is rampant there. I had to get away from there because of that, and a couple of other cultural issues.
justyouandi
Some people see racism “in the rising of the sun”! There will always be racism, just as there will always be people who don’t like redheads, mid-westerners, or Norwegians. But a lot of the charges of racism that I hear simply are not.
If a tall, thin white girl who loves Diana Ross and wants to dress up like her for Halloween, it requires that she wear dark make-up to complete the look. She is not being racist by wearing “blackface”. She is demonstrating her admiration for Diana and is doing it as a tribute to her.
Most people would never think to be offended until someone tells them they are supposed to be.
Juanjo
That’s a lovely collection of illogical, barely coherent thoughts masquerading as a coherent opinion.
jjose712
I think blackface is totally different in other countries. If someone in an european country does blackface there’s 99% of probabilities that he or she is dressed like someone he/she admires, but in the USA there’s a history behind blackface.
Anyway saying something racist (and goes the same for homophobic) doesn’t make the person racist (or homophobic) maybe just blind to being insensitive (of course not all remarks are the same)
DK
“Someone” tells them, who? The tooth fairy?
Tigertail60
Justyouandi! Thank you! You illustrated the point very well! My God, where has common sense gone?? This HYPER sensitivity has got to stop! Originated and developed by — who knows? I just know that I am very tired of seeing folks pulling the “race card” at seemingly every opportunity they can. The creators and producers of that “comedy” “Blackish” should really ask themselves what their true intentions are. I had never been reminded about such blatent black racism until I watched that show… only once. TV often perpetuates the divisions between us, TV news eats it up. Wake up, everybody. Let’s go dancing to the beautiful song, “Love Train” by the O’Jays. Accept our differences, embrace our varied cultures and get on the damn LOVE TRAIN!
Brian
Or, that tall think white girl could do the Diana Ross costume and just not add the dark makeup. It’s Halloween, not a historical reenactment. Then she could demonstrate her admiration for Diana in a way that wouldn’t offend most people (although I’m sure there would still be a few SJWs crying about cultural appropriation).
Franklin
@Brian, that’s not what cultural appropriation is, but go off.
Bruce Garner
The saddest part of all this mess is that it involves young men who should know better and know how to behave more like adults. Someone taught them racism. It didn’t come innately. They are the beneficiaries of white male privilege. If they were not queer, their cred would be even higher in the realm of privilege. It’s hard to tell the ages of the 5 guys involved, but they seem to be old enough to make informed decisions, even about themselves. They seem to be old enough to take the responsibility for their ignorant and misinformed positions as well. But I guess their mentor, who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, has taught them well that they can say what they please without consequences. We don’t need any more people with the mentality of a five year old. We need people who are capable of putting together a complete sentence that has some recognizable content to it. Guess we are not there yet. What should I expect from people who are more interested in showing flesh than demonstrating that they have a functioning brain??
frankcar1965
They’re porn actors, they fuuck on camera for money aka prostitutes they just need to shut up and show us their tasty holes! They’re probably not the brightest bulbs anyway.
StupidBoy
My mother’s father was a complete and total racist. He freely used the “N” word. He hated Arabs. She moved away for work and had Black friends. She chose not to pass her father’s racist beliefs onto her children. My middle brother’s daughter is married to an African and has mixed children.
It can stop with ONE person not willing to pass the racism of their parentage onto their offspring.
It IS happening with mixed-race marriages and families being more accepting.
It IS happening with Republican’s daughters and sons coming out.
It is happening little by little around the country as everyone becomes more vocal with their coworkers and family members and friends and stops being “nice” and starts sticking up for our right to live and work and be happy.
da90027
They are also under the misguided impression they are stars. There are no porn stars anymore just thousands doing it everyone and their mother. These guys are nothing special. I say let these morons keep opening their mouth so everyone can see how insipid, uneducated and out of touch they are with what is going on in the world these days.
Antony
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rray63
@Juanjo, it must be terrible to be surrounded by people that don’t measure up to your intellect, right? I asked a specific question, there was no deflection unless you choose to see it that way. I wasn’t excusing anyone’s behavior as anyone with a third grade level reading skill could see. But you, as with most chose not to answer the question. I can only assume that you find the behavior just fine. Again, as long as only one group can be called racists, everything will be fine in your world. Never mind that I agree that there are racists in our country. Oh, is it because I don’t think the entire country is racists? Or because I didn’t specifically talk about the men in the article. In case you were sure it was a general reply about the topic, which was racism, were you aware of that? Perhaps you can go to a nice CA college so you are surrounded by like minded people that only know how to group think. An ability I’m sure you have mastered. Have a wonderful day Juanjo!
justyouandi
Juano’s response to me was, I suspect, something he read somewhere and it sounded good to him so he uses it every chance he gets whether it applies or not.
frankcar1965
We’re worried about what porn actors think, really?
batesmotel
Typical pretty white boys that are racist. That’s not a stretch.
rray63
@batesmotel, so because a white man is pretty he is racists? Wow, the bar for racists is getting lower and lower. You do know that if you label everyone as a racists, it kind of dilutes the negative power of the word, right? Wow, again. Educate yourself.
NCSilverBear
Racism has been alive and kickin’ since I came out, some 50 years ago. Used to be, and still is in some cities, there were separate bars for blacks and whites. And if a white guy like me dated or even friended a black guy he was called a “dinge queen”. I still hear that slung around from time to time. Same goes for ageism. Both discriminations are still a blight on a community that claims “exclusivity”. I don’t think we’ve come very far, frankly. IMO
JH0607
Dinge queens have low self-esteem.
StupidBoy
My best friend (now deceased) was from Monroe, LA. He voiced an opinion 15 or 20 years ago that he would like to have gone back home and visited his family and friends. As his best friend, I happily volunteered to drive down there with him.
He told me that he couldn’t be seen with me in his hometown because I was white and he was black.
He told me the KKK burned crosses on their lawn when he was little.
He was too scared to be seen with a white friend in his hometown.
We never went, and now he is deceased.
My stepfather’s mixed grandchildren were scared to walk around our small, white, Iowa town alone when they came and visited 25 years ago. I walked around and rode my bike without worry since I was a child. It was weird to me that they would be apprehensive about that. I couldn’t comprehend that anyone in our town would hate them or be worried that mixed Black kids were walking around.
Racism and hatred are learned, and I never learned it. My mother made sure that she didn’t pass on her father’s racism to her children.
But it also made me insulated, and unable to empathize with my Black and mixed friends and family members when they were too scared to venture out into my White world.
I’m glad I’ve had the Black friends and mixed family members that I’ve had, but most of the White world can’t associate with that, and the empathy is not there.
My best friend now is Black lesbian, yet she doesn’t understand the fat shaming in the Gay community.
I have trans coworkers, one who quit over being ridiculed by another coworker.
We all have learning to do to empathize with our friends and coworkers and community members about things we didn’t have to deal with when we grew up.
I have been made fun of for having Black friends and liking Black men. All sorts of derogatory terms.
But, as I said in several posts, we convince one or two people at a time, and they may convince one or two others. We will persevere and spread the love and it is taking root. That’s why the majority of millennials support gay marriage and trans acceptance. Spread it one person at a time, and let them spread it to one more and one more and one more.
uncz1978
Just because they have looks they think that gives them the right to be JERKS.
The one gets paid to have sex on camera. Real upstanding person.
DK
The gayKK has always been a thing. Looking for daddy’s approval. Sad!
grethomory
This is nothing new regarding racists gays. All you have to do is go look at one or some of the gay dating apps. I’m Black…and 55…and now some of those guys who are around my age back in the day….were the ones who sneered or talked about Blacks are the same ones trying to get some of the young Blacks and Hispanics because they have now lost their looks in age. What used to be anger at some of these guys has now turned to pity. When I go to a bar I will see them looking sad and depressed looking. I had the chance to speak with one back in the Spring. I said to him after this young little Black guy turned him down…”I remember when you wouldn’t look at a Black guy….what happened?” He said to me, “I’m old now and no white guy wants me.” I just shook my head and walked off. He died this Summer of cancer and didn’t even know he had it.
natekerchel
I don’t go on those sites like Grindr purely because I know that there is blatant racism going on – and I am white. For me, it is hypocritical for white gay men to say they are not racist but then support and promote racist sites and apps. To claim that they are doing nothing but using personal preference does not explain why they exclude entire races of people from people they are ok meeting. We don’t know who we are going to fall in love with. How can they exclude an entire race of people – have they met every single member of that race? No – that is evidence enough to show racism in my opinion.
In a way, I think that guy you mentioned got paid back for his arrogance and racism – it should be a lesson to others.
StupidBoy
I notice a distinct lack of gay Black men around the 45-60 age. I’m 45 and don’t go out to bars and don’t even want to go outside. My younger, Black lesbian friend doesn’t understand why. I’ve been out to bars. I’ve been on gay dating websites. It’s horrible and poisonous. One of my best friends was born in 1960. He’s now deceased. I’ve lost contact with many of my friends from earlier years, but I can come home from work and be quiet and alone and not bothered. I lived in a majority Black neighborhood for several years and thought that I would meet that special someone, but I got evicted by a slumlord who didn’t want to take my money anymore. I’m trying to write now and get my life back, but it’s a challenge. I’ve known friends who succumbed to crack. I did meth several times. Drugs are tempting when you have no friends and want some human contact. I sometimes go on a local dating website when I get buzzed on beer and try to contact people, but it’s always a fail. I try to block the website from myself, but I find a way back there. My goal is working and writing and being celibate instead of looking for a hookup. It’s worked for the last four years. I got a first book out of it and am working on a second one and haven’t had to worry about dating or sex, except jacking off.
John
If your hateful (racist is hateful) why in the hell should we give these guys any attention, they are not good looking, and if they do porn who was the idiot who hired them they are not even worth it, ugly!!
natekerchel
We have known for many years that some gay men are racist/sexist/transphobe/homophobe – but when confronted, their response is to deny it or take an attitude of ‘so what’ – white privilege affects gay men just as much as straight men. The issue is what can be done about it?
Racist gay men on pick up sites like Grindr hide behind the ‘it’s my personal choice’ excuse when asked about their exclusion of whole races from their profiles. Denying racism does not make it go away. In the case of ‘public’ figures who are racist, there is at least the possibility of using that public profile to shame them and change them – I am not sure that would apply to any of the five mentioned here as I would question just how ‘famous’ they actually are. For people who rely on the public for making a living – actors, singers etc – we can make our displeasure known quite easily and hot them where it really hurts – in their pockets. Those on sites like Grindr, or indeed this site, can be stopped in their tracks by being refused access if they are deemed to be racist.
JH0607
You can be the one who goes and does all the black ones. See if we care. I will stick to my preference…white rules.
STS
The end of racism starts with the man in the mirror, full stop. We can only control our own actions. We all lead by example, people on social media tend to do and say things that they would never do or say in person. But when their words or actions garner a vastly negative response they (if they care) should learn from the reaction and take a look at the man in the mirror. Racism and Bigotry are about numbers, but often we only think about our actions from the point of view of one person. Imagine your hateful comment or action is the sixth hateful comment that a marginalized person has dealt with today. Put yourself in the shoes of the guy who has been told he is unworthy by eight guys in the last hour and all eight of those guys are from a similar demographic, in these situations lone comment or action is part of a larger set of comments and actions that begins to paint a picture. the bigot only sees his one comment or action and doesn’t understand that his is but one dot in a pointillism, in other words, unintended bigots are often to close to the painting to see the whole picture, and too self centered to care, but they are still bigots, to fix this we all must fix the only person we can fix, ourselves.
JH0607
If I were told I was unworthy by eight guys in the last hour, I would believe it. How many times before you would believe it?
Virpilosus
Racism is as American as apple pie, as the saying goes. It’ll always be around. It’s up to all decent people to resist and denounce it wherever and whenever it’s evident.
JH0607
Race-traitors are as American as apple pie, as the saying goes. It’ll always be around. It’s up to all decent people to resist and denounce race-traitors wherever and whenever it’s evident. Whites should promote whites and blacks should promote blacks and slants should… (you know the rest).
natekerchel
In these days of ‘Trumpism’ how many ‘decent’ people are left? Gay men should be ashamed to be racist – they are the first to shout and scream about discrimination when it affects them. Yes, it is true that American racism is still deeply ingrained along with homophobia and sexism. Currently, we are being ‘led’ by the most outrageous racist, homophobe, transphobe bully ever to disgrace the office of President. He has sounded the racist battle cry and is being heard by the uneducated, the dispossessed and those who want white privilege reinstated. There is no logic to racism – it is visceral in nature and only appeals to a certain type of individual. Unfortunately, one of them has managed to reach the White House.
Polaro
Seriously, not everything is racist. Stop already. Only two crossed the line, and Speedo lad had nothing to do with racism – I agree with him, if not the way he went about it. As far as Halloween costumes go, chill out or no one will be able to dress as anything once you PC police are done. No harm intended – take none.
Vince
Thank you for the rational comment. Seems to be missing from most of the above.
Tombear
Saw Bernal in real time , on Market Street in SanFrancisco. I don’t know when that pic was taken but the man in real life looks like a meth addict. The husband even said hello to him and offered him 5$ to get some food! Horrible looking man, I wonder how he got into porn!