Is the gay community racist?

I'm not, but at the same time I can't speak for everyone.

We're people from all over, and I suppose that leads to a lot of different ideas and varying levels of acceptance and intelligence.
I've heard it mentioned in the past. I suppose the best thing to do is to promote "don't judge a book by it's cover" type thinking, otherwise they miss out on a lot of amazing people when they take one look and leave.

 

I'm not. I've found people of color (of a variety of races/ethnicity) just as attractive as Caucasians. I don't really understand how someone could not find some random person to be not totally hot based on such a stupid, unchangeable thing as their race. I mean how does that even work. I look around, immediately think oh hey that girl's hot or whatever. Skin color doesn't factor in. I don't use dating apps (or whatever the site censored out) so i can't comment on that.

 

There are definitely pockets of racism in the LGBT community. Some are more controversial than others (like gay male culture, and especially drag, accused of appropriating black female stereotypes), but most issues that exist outside the community also exist inside.

I've definitely experienced standoffish or rude behavior around white LGBT folk, and thought it must just be me being paranoid or sensitive, but apparently, its quite common. I didn't say anything because I didn't want to make a scene, but they definitely stayed on my mind afterwards.

Yeah, I was a bit disillusioned at first, since I thought there would be no racism, sexism, transphobic, etc. especially since we're all members of one or more minority group, which was naïve, looking back. That just means there is more room for improvement.

 

Is the gay community racist? No. Is there racism within the gay community? Yes, I'm afraid so and there is no point in denying it. Sometimes it's blatant racism, other times it's more insidious. Either way, it's very bad.

 

This pretty much sums it up very nicely.

I get rather annoyed when I see LGBT+ people being racist. After all the struggles this community has been through, and will continue to go through, they should really know better than to discriminate against someone for being born a certain way. But the lose is there. They let them selves become filled with hate and miss out on a great many wonderful people.

 

Hi Confuseduser99, in response to your thread, I have to say that being a gay man of color, I too have experienced racism within the gay community. Especially, when I moved to the west side of the city. In fact, I was approached by a few Caucasian gay men when I had started to frequent a few of the popular gay clubs within that community in regards to me being more comfortable in a gay club where all guys of color frequent. I have dated guys of all races and do not look at color unless you bring it into my face. I even had several Caucasian guys who had wanted to date me on a serious level but coward out of pursuing me due to the fact that their fellow friends would not approve of them being with me. What I found very interesting is that those very guys who gave them a hard time about pursuing romantically, had pursued me sexually when none of them were around to witness them doing so. I also found it very interesting that when a few of the hottest white guys whom happened to be very popular in that gay community had asked me out on dates and when these other guys saw them with me...all of a sudden...I became someone to pursue despite my skin color being an issue. Imagine that!!!!! Anyway, things did began to get better in some cases, but I just found it quite sad to know that this

 

I am very not racist, I believe everybody should be equal.

 

I think it's unhealthy to focus on the people who are not attracted to you, rather than the people who are. Someone not being attracted to people from a certain race is not racist. People can't chose their attractions (as gay people we understand this). Could people explain that with more tact? Probably, yes. Could it be argued that ignoring all the people from one race is closed minded? Maybe. But that's their choice and they have the right to reject people based on any criteria they may wish.

Some people don't date people of other race because they don't believe in interracial relationships. I don't think that's a gay problem but a problem with society in general (it's not just white people who do that).

 

This happens in pretty much every community. It's far better for us to focus on people who will accept us rather than waste energy on those who do not.

 

You get a little bit of everybody in every single group.

 

You wont find a group that doesn't have a small percentage of bad eggs. The problem is, it is the bad eggs that get all the attention.

 

Gay male culture is remarkably open about sexual preferences and shameless about shallowness in a way you don't find in many other groups.

Note the obsession on a particular, nameless hook-up app about statistical information, such as weight, height, age and race. The filters you can apply on those metrics are pretty remarkable - and when you create an intrusive expectation to know about how much someone weighs to the kilo, choosing on the basis of race can feel fairly normal.

That invites some level of racism to come to the fore where in other groups it remains hidden, whether it's exclusionary or fetishises people of colour.

 

In my personal experience as an Asian man, I find that although I see the "No Asian" thing all the time, the motivation is... odd.

Again, in my personal experience, a large section of the (American) gay community excludes Asians because they seem to fear that the Asians are going to "swoop in and steal all the good white guys".

Another reason I've seen that guys put the "No Asians" on their info is because they fear the consternation of their peers if they date an Asian man.

Are these examples racist? Very probably.

 

Yes, there is racism within the gay community. I actually think it's quite a big problem that we sweep under the rug.

 

Members of the community certainly can be racist.

 

Not only can we be racist we can be bigoted as well.
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