Writer Jafari Sinclaire Allen on being gay at Morehouse: "A recent article in the Los Angles Times, by Richard Fausset, bookends the recent history of homophobia and gay articulation at Morehouse with the heinous 2002 baseball-bat beating of a Morehouse student, Greg Love, by a dormitory mate, Aaron Price, and the historic “No More ‘No Homo’ ” events organized by Michael Brewer and members of the campus organization, Safe Space, in April 2008. For me, this recalls memories that I had put away… The fact that homophobia at Morehouse is not unique or unusual with respect to heterosexism and homophobia in society at large should be obvious… The institution represents rather, the “perfect storm” of homophobia in the US—racial and class anxieties of “exceptional Negroes,” masculine gender trouble, class conflict and fundamentalist religious baggage. These seas roil and skies open up in an international climate of heterosexism and misogyny. The violence is therefore instructive, dramatic and sad, but not rare in our world." More at Racialicious.
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How can a university born out of the Civil war, want to oppress anyone else?
hypermasculinity is very annoying.
An openly gay friend of mine who attended another southern HBCU was involved with a few Morehouse men, all VERY closeted. Dating a closet-case is just about self-hating as being one. I told him this and he agreed with me. One of his "boys" was outed via Facebook. The guy had been involved with a woman. The truth came out and the understandably angry gal pal started a facebook group, invited everyone she knew and they knew to join. Considering it's an all-men's college, I imagine that the number of gay men there is at least representative of the general population (~5%??) and I certainly wouldn't be shocked for a minute if some of these violent homophobes are just closet cases.
Being completely secure in my heterosexualityflexibility, I can't imagine why I'd get angry at someone else's sexuality unless of course I feared it. I'm not one who lives in fear of being with a down low guy. I sure as hell would be if I dated a homophobe, something that has never and will never happen.
I am always sadden by such hate coming from people of color. We as African Americans, Blacks whatever you want to be called should understand the hate that we deal with everyday, so how is it that one can oppose that same hate on anyone for any reason at all. Ignorance knows no race, creed, or gender.
undermasculinity is even more alarming
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