It's the weekend, so I'm going to have a little fun.
The following video is a comical example of the dangers of not discussing lgbts issues in the African-American community.
A while back, a black gay man, J.L. King, wrote a book talking about "down low" black men, or black men who are secretly gay while maintaining a heterosexual facade.
The book was featured on Oprah and all hell broke loose, as it does in all situations of ridiculous moral panics.
African-Americans (particularly black women) practically flipped out over the real notion that there is such thing as closeted gay men. Fueling the madness was the now debunked belief that these men were causing the HIV rate to go up in the black community, chiefly amongst black women.
Seminars, books, and talk shows spread across the country supposedly giving tips about how to "detect down low men." Strangely enough, the idea of having a real conversation about homophobia in the black community never crossed the mind of these "concerned individuals."
The following video is an example of this insanity. According to this lady on the video, the red flags of "down low men" are men who:
don't check their nails palm down,
chew gum loudly,
chooses to blow something out of a man's eye,
pronounce their "esses better than a rattlesnake,"
and fart silently. Apparently a heterosexual man's fart is supposed to make noise.
No disrespect to the lady in this video, but I think she is serious:
The following video is a comical example of the dangers of not discussing lgbts issues in the African-American community.
A while back, a black gay man, J.L. King, wrote a book talking about "down low" black men, or black men who are secretly gay while maintaining a heterosexual facade.
The book was featured on Oprah and all hell broke loose, as it does in all situations of ridiculous moral panics.
African-Americans (particularly black women) practically flipped out over the real notion that there is such thing as closeted gay men. Fueling the madness was the now debunked belief that these men were causing the HIV rate to go up in the black community, chiefly amongst black women.
Seminars, books, and talk shows spread across the country supposedly giving tips about how to "detect down low men." Strangely enough, the idea of having a real conversation about homophobia in the black community never crossed the mind of these "concerned individuals."
The following video is an example of this insanity. According to this lady on the video, the red flags of "down low men" are men who:
don't check their nails palm down,
chew gum loudly,
chooses to blow something out of a man's eye,
pronounce their "esses better than a rattlesnake,"
and fart silently. Apparently a heterosexual man's fart is supposed to make noise.
No disrespect to the lady in this video, but I think she is serious: