Talk:Racism in the LGBT community

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Whoa. This is not neutral. --Revolución hablar ver 11:01, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

I made a lot of changes. It's better now. --Revolución hablar ver 14:38, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Need a source

In San Antonio, Texas, the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, a multi-issue, racially diverse umbrella organization which is the center of progressive, as well as gay and lesbian organizing for the area, has been directly attacked by the area's only gay publication, The Marquise. The attack centers on a number of issues including Esperanza's efforts to make arts institutions culturally diverse and its inclusion of issues of race, class, and gender within gay and lesbian politics. Because of the attack, several 'gay conservatives', have been blamed for “working againest the Civil rights movement”.^[1] After San Antonio Councilman Roger Perez appointed a staff person from Esperanza to the City's Cultural Arts Board, Glenn Stehle, editor of The Marquise, wrote a letter to Councilman Perez stating that "I am here to tell you, Mr. Perez, that not all gays and lesbians are Marxists, nor do we all subscribe to the theories of French poststructuralism... We don't go around picking fights with the Catholic church nor any other religious or secular group in town with our loudmouthed in-your-face histrionics. In the political spectrum, the lesbian and gay community voted more Republican than the Jewish, Black and Hispanic populations in the last election...."^[1] In addition to the letter writing campaign, Esperanza's offices were repeatedly vandalized, particularly after gay-related events. Sanchez notes that Esperanza got hate calls after an invitation to a lesbian/gay art show was sent to an exclusively gay list. Harassment of the organization varied from break-ins to a slashed bra wiped with feces left on a tree branch near where Esperanza's staff park their cars, as well as feces spread on the windows and by the front entrance of the Esperanza office.^[1] Surina Khan, who is an Associate Analyst at Political Research Associates writes; they are able to be convinced, as others within the [gay] mainstream have been, that people of color, or immigrants, or welfare recipients, or government bureaucrats, or butch lesbians, or drag queens are the problem.^[1]

I would like a source for the claim that "the attack [by The Marquise] centers on a number of issues including Esperanza's efforts to make arts institutions culturally diverse; its inclusion of issues of race, class, and gender within gay and lesbian politics; and the sexually explicit art exhibited at Esperanza-sponsored gay and lesbian art shows". --Revolución hablar ver 09:08, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comparison with racism outside the LGBT community?

Since racism exists almost everywhere, I think it's fair to compare attitudes toward race within and outside the LGBT community. Are there any polls on the subject? I'd be very surprised if LGBTs aren't at least a little less racist, overall, than society at large. LGBT racism is striking because it seems ironic, not necessarily because it's more predominant than non-LGBT racism -- the article should somehow make that clear. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 17:52, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

It's because of the inability of some people with anti-gay or just plain idiotic agendas to see that just because someone who is white and gay does something racist, it shouldn't reflect on all white gays, and especially on all gays. And we are less racist than straights, regardless of any color one is , the gay community is more racially harmonious than the "straight community" (if you want to use that term) could ever be. --Revolución hablar ver 05:25, 9 March 2007 (UTC)