Racism is a problem in the gay community and you need look no further than the current presidential campaign, argues Gabe Gonzalez in a new video from Mic.
“Nothing more clearly illustrates that racism is alive and well in the gay community than this election cycle,” Gonzalez says. “Don’t believe me? Ask the gays. For Trump.”
“Like a rich daddy on Fire Island, the alt-right has penetrated the hearts of some impressionable young men,” he continues. “Overgrown twinks with a penchant for harassing successful black comedians [Milo Yiannopolous] or purchasing followers on Twitter [Lucian Wintrich] have become the fresh new face of the same, reliable racism of yesteryear.”
Gonzalez then cuts to a clip of Yiannopolous, in cop cosplay, denigrating the Black Lives Matter movement with his trademark nuance-free, misinformation rhetoric, too stupid to even reasonably label an argument.
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The Log Cabin Republicans may have backed away from endorsing Donald Trump, but he does still have some supporters among the LGBTQ community.
While Trump likes to argue that Hillary Clinton takes money from countries that kill gay people, the Clinton campaign does not take money from other countries. The Clinton Foundation does, but it is illegal to ask for donations for an election from foreign countries and citizens. Although Trump has tried, even after being warned.
Trump also hypocritically has business ties to countries with antigay laws.
He then takes on the casual racism so often found on dating and hookup apps like Grindr and Scruff.
“Studies from Seattle, Washington to Sydney, Australia show that sexual racism is a real phenomenon that affects real people who feel unwanted or undesirable, before they’ve even had a chance to say hello,” Gonzalez continues.
“We can’t claim to be for equality if we show up for marriage and not black lives. We can’t march with pride if we can’t remember Marsha [P. Johnson] or Sylvia [Rivera]. It won’t ‘get better’ for queer youth of color until we identify and dismantle the ways we’ve normalized racism.”
Watch below:
joeyty
Gabe Gonzalez looks like the totally annoying nerd of an uncle of those hot Hispanic boys down the block.
Brian
Gabe Gonzalez sounds ridiculous. I think he’s looking for an issue that doesn’t really affect people’s lives in any real sense.
If you look for racism, you will find it. You will find it in women, in men, in gays, in blacks, in whites and in Latinos. Every identity contains racism.
I honestly think some people have too much time on their hands and go looking for issues that don’t really affect anybody.
mydude
@Brian:
You don’t have to “go looking” for racism–hence the point of the article.
You sound like a Trumpkin when you suggest racism is “an issue that doesn’t really affect people’s lives in any real sense.”
If you’re gay; Gabe is probably talking to YOU.
joeyty
@Brian: AND the Japanese and Indians.
joeyty
@mydude: I’m gay, and if Gabe is talking AT me, I’ll tell him to shut up.
dean089
Racism is no more or less prevalent in the gay community than in the mainstream community. Our sexual orientation doesn’t suddenly change everything else about us.
joeyty
@dean089: And it shouldn’t. (And, historically, we’ve ranged from Allen Ginsberg to Ernst Roehm, and from Hans Christian Anderson to Nero, and from DaVinci to Kamehameha. Totally tied in and enmeshed with civilization from the beginning. So why should we care about this skinny little nitwit Geeky Gonzalez telling us we have to sleep with demented black drag queens ?)
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@joeyty: Me too. White gay males will get tired of this.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@Brian: He’s just looking to blame gay men – white gay men, especially. This sort of thing is only encouraging the “no [insert minority here] on dating sites/apps because it’s pissing white gay men off.
Chris
That is pure, high grade bull shit. An overwhelming majority of white gay folk support Hillary Clinton.
Jack Meoff
I watched that video and the strongest message I received was how annoying and unlikable this guy is. Gabe has just cancelled out his own message by being so obnoxious people don’t really hear what he has to say over the verbal assault.
Blackceo
Yup. Gabe speaks a lot of truth here. Of course there are the “oh its not a big deal” and the other deniers. No, racism isn’t going to be found more or less in the gay community but it is there. So quick to call out the athlete that says “no homo” but crickets on the every day examples of microaggressions that occur within our community. *insert any number of tea sipping gifs*
Personally, I have never been a victim of it but I see it occur in our community far too frequently. If what Gabe said wasn’t true why are some of y’all so bothered?
Louis
The irony is many of these comments represent exactly what he was referring too.
No different then right wingers dismissing anything having to do with our rights and dignities as Americans simply because we are LGBT and they have no respect nor education nor empathy for us in any capacity.
Stop representing this community in such divisive and negative ways it only makes us look like absolute hypocrites period.
MediaGuy
Never heard of this guy before but he can raise his voice at me whenever he wants. He’s cute AF. Too bad he’s latin, like Milo the horrible rac*ist, I really only go for black guys in bed. I guess I could try it and see if Gabe’s taco is any good. (just kidding girls, just kidding).
I have to laugh at the hypocrisy of the article which states:
“Trump also hypocritically has business ties to countries with antigay laws”.
And the bitch Hillary Clinton isn’t taking money from anti-gay countries hand over fist, right? The partisan transparency is making me cringe I am embarrassed for Queerty for being too stupid to know you’re making an ass out of yourself with comments like this. I’m definitely voting for Trump as many, many gay men are, despite the efforts by the partisan extremist press to convince us otherwise. Make America Great Again. Thank you very much.
Mo Bro
More manufactured outrage from the left.
It must be a day of the week that ends with Y.
Xzamilloh
SJWs ruined Twitter. They ruined Tumblr. And now they’ve ruined Queerty.
joeyty
@Mo Bro: “It must be a day of the week that ends with Y” THAT’S good.
joeyty
@MediaGuy: ” I am embarrassed for Queerty for being too stupid to know you’re making an ass out of yourself with comments like this.” The Queerties feel free to spew whatever venom they want as long as they stay in hiding like they do. Ever see a photo of any of them ?
TomSmart
if I wanted advice from a smelly Brooklyn hipster millennial I would ask for it. He thinks he’s being so smart and “edgy” and thinking original thoughts but honey as they say “It’s all been done before….”
Heywood Jablowme
@Xzamilloh: “And now they’ve [SJWs] ruined Queerty.”
Make Queerty Great Again?
Franklin
I’d say r@cism occurs in equal amounts in the gay and straight communities. However, I will say, if anything, gay men seem to be a bit more unconcerned about c@sual racism when it does occur. One of the biggest problems is people tend to equate r@cism with something like wearing a white hood and burning a cross on someone’s lawn. However, what people don’t realize is at some point, those sheets do come off, and the person underneath starts to look a lot like some of the very same people we sip drinks with at the gay clubs.
stranger2myself
Of course he says truth. But it’s not only racism gay community have problem with. Have you ever tried to date a bear without being one? Have you ever tried to talk gym addict without being one? Have you tried talking to hipster/artist if you’re not one? You have no chance! Since people seems to stick to type of people they can relate to or bond with. It’s bitter reality we live in. Only thing you can do about it is to accept the fact, that most of guys you will ever meet in gay community will be superficial and close-minded. Nothing can be done about it!
pierscik
It doesn’t matter what Gabe Gonzalez looks like or whether you fancy him or not…it’s what he says that should register surely. It doesn’t matter whether it’s been said before…if it’s relevant it can be said a hundred times. It doesn’t matter whether the straight and gay communities contain equal amounts of racists… We , as members of a targeted minority have a duty to fight harder against racism than the straight community. That we are equally guilty of casual racism doesn’t make it more acceptable, or at least it shouldn’t.
Chris2016
First of all, Marsha P Johnson was a man, and attempts to portray her as trans is nothing more then revisionist history. Second of all, the significance of the stonewall riots is greatly overplayed.
The Gay community is the only minority that is consistently asked (even expected) to fight every battle and champion every cause, all while the Gay community remains the most disadvantaged minority in America. I think that last part is a big reason the Gay community consistently gets attacked by sjw’s. With their martyr complex, and regular participation in the oppression olympics, it makes them angry that those evil ‘white Gays’ actually have it worse than they do.
joeyty
This scrawny bully Gabe Gonzalez is probably one of the guys in this video beating up the lady. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njN75nJdCAk
pisces-boi
I wish people would stop acting as if a white boy not wanting to sleep with a black guy is the most horrible thing in the world, because it’s not. Not every black men ( myself included) bases are self-worth or attractiveness on a white boy finding us attractive. Ps all of these commenters sound like hypocrites and I’m definitely not voting for trump.
MediaGuy
I think this little faggoty democrat’s got a furry ass. Yum.
oddchild1
Milo Yiannopolous is to the gay community what the Westboro Baptist church is to Christianity; saying publicly what the mainstream of those communities truly believe but hide behind niceties and in private. Just look at this comment section; nothing but ad hominems, straw men, and white fragility platitudes. No actual counter arguments to what Gabe Gonzalez actually said. The greatest success of the right has been to turn issues like raci$m, homophobia and sexism into a mere series of interpersonal slights; merely tit for tat between races, sexes and orientations. The truth about forms of oppression like raci$m, sexism and homophobia are much bigger than individuals or their interactions. All oppression is contextual, historical, economic, social, cultural, systemic, and institutional. You are raci$t if you defend and perpetuate the culture that continues to oppress people of color,just like you’re homophobic is you defend and perpetuate the culture that continues to oppress, and are sexist if you defend and perpetuate the culture of arbitrary gender norms.
oddchild1
Also funny how on the Queerty comments section anyone talking about Raci$m can’t spell it right because otherwise they need moderation but you can say faggot all you want
joeyty
@oddchild1: But he DOES look like a geek.
Bauhaus
@MediaGuy:
About 12 percent of LGBTs are voting for Trump (WaPo). Too many, considering his rhetoric, stupidity, Pence, and his complete lack of suitability for the position.
Heywood Jablowme
As a white guy who really LIKES sex with Latino guys, I enjoy the relative lack of competition! Those dumbass white rac!sts sure make things a lot easier for me. Not that I approve, of course. LOL.
Poor Gabe, he’s not getting enough white meat on Scruff and Grindr, boo hoo. Seriously, why does EVERY discussion of “rac!sm in the gay community” immediately devolve into “rac!sm on Scruff and Grindr.” There’s actually more to rac!sm than sleazy hookup apps. But you’d never know it from complaints like this one.
I’d do him though. As long as he didn’t talk during sex. But that would probably be too much to ask.
Heywood Jablowme
@Bauhaus: Assuming the vast majority of those 12 percent of LGBT Trump voters are in NYC, California or “Chicagoland,” they are no problem to anyone who doesn’t have the misfortune to know them personally. Clinton will get all those 111 or so electoral votes anyway.
It’s the few gay Trumpkins in Florida, Arizona, NC and Ohio that I’m worried about!
Mo Bro
@Heywood Jablowme:
One of your “Trumpkins” here in Florida.
Voted early.
I guess we’ll see November 9th if we’re facing 4 years of Trump wackiness or Clinton corruption.
jkevkil
I’m a white guy. I prefer white and Latino guys as sex partners. I will vote for Mr. Trump. I am generally conservative. I am tired of being told to “check my white privilege” simply because I was born white.
John
Most Homophobia comes from the Black and Asian (muslim) (Bible belt) community. Its pure hatred why the hell would we we want more? Whites can be just as bad but they are usually old closets. The richest gays should buy an Island and we could have a rest from the haters.