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There Are Rich White Gays and Lesbians, And There’s The Rest of Us

Filed Under LGBT, Race 

Doug Cooper Spencer makes an excellent point in a recent article posted at the Daily Voice:

. . . there’s a distinct class structure even within the gay community that defies equality. It reflects the very constructs of class that exists in the larger society. In the gay community, it’s one that places the concerns of rich white gays and lesbians over others. It even engenders the same imperialistic notions we see in the larger society.

Bingo. And the HRC has learned how to exploit that class structure, encouraging rich white gays and lesbians to ignore the needs of “the other” in favor of an invite to their fancy celebrity galas so they can wine and dine with other rich gays and lesbians.

One of my Twitter followers informed me that the HRC was not the enemy and suggested that I spend my time fighting anti-gay groups instead. One of the goals of this blog is to expose any organization I believe causes the gay community harm. Just because an organization calls itself a gay rights organization doesn’t make it so. I could call myself a car – but that wouldn’t be true either. AFA. NOM. HRC. They’re all the same to me; they all cause harm to the gay community.

Said Twitter follower also informed me that the HRC has done great things; why yes they have – for only certain parts of our community. For 90% of the gay community, the HRC is that rich second cousin who never knows you exist until it’s time to hit you up for wedding presents and baby shower gifts.

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2 Responses to “There Are Rich White Gays and Lesbians, And There’s The Rest of Us”

  1. @yksin on October 20th, 2009 11:18 pm

    This is part of why I hated "The L Word" — (I had other reasons too, like its really shitty writing) — most of the characters on it were well-monied, snazzily dressed fashion plates. Even, by & large, those who were purportedly down on their luck.

    But "The L Word" was just a cable TV show — HRC has a lot more impact in our world, if only in its pretense of representing us. In the end, we do best by representing ourselves. Glad that you're speaking honesty about them, as about other things.

  2. archieval on November 1st, 2009 6:03 am

    Ariztical/Horror in the Wind

    The President of the United States, a religious fanatic, catches wind of a secret formula that suppresses sexual desire and is determined to use it to win the “War on Sex.” He manages to steal the formula from the creators before they finish testing it, and no one is prepared for what happens next.

    The President orders airplanes on a secret mission to cover the globe, spraying the secret formula in every nook and cranny covering entire hemispheres. But the plan backfires when the formula doesn’t work as promised – instead of suppressing sexual desire, it actually reverses it! The straights become gay, the gays become straight, and everyone’s lives are surprisingly turned sexually upside down.

    Unexpected love flourishes, sexual desires rise to the surface, and when an antidote is finally found, you’d think everyone would be first in line to take it…or would they?

    http://www.ariztical.com/

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