Gay Pride, Black Prejudice
"Gay is the New Black," declares the Dec. 16 issue of The Advocate, a leading gay-oriented magazine. Well, not quite. How about, "Gay is the new gray"?
The gray area for a lot of black Americans like me is not in the issue of gay rights but in the comparison some gay activist make between that issue and the movement for racial equality.
I don't oppose same-sex marriage. After years of arguments from the other side about perceived threats ...
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I think that the most important statement is, "Obama turned his popularity around through persistent campaigning and excellent organizing to increase the public's comfort level with him. In the end, he turned a vote for Obama into something in which many voters took pride, just for being on the right side of history." I think that if gay people very obviously and openly worked on the issues most important to the African-American community, progress would come more quickly. And, no, I don't mean that I think that it would necessarily be easy or quick.