Many of the rights and freedoms that all LGBT people won were down to the struggles of black and minority ethnic people: The least that white LGBT people can do is to reciprocate and confront racism within their own ranks.
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The far-right movements on the march across the western world are consciously trying to co-opt the LGBT rights campaign for their own agenda. Muslims are portrayed as an existential threat to gay people, particularly after Orlando. This week, Milo Yiannopolous — a gay attention-seeker who has become an icon of the US far right — was at the centre of a media storm because a platform to speak at his old school was withdrawn.
In the Netherlands, the anti-immigrant right was led by a gay man, Pim Fortuyn, until his assassination. In France, reportedly a third of married gay couples support the far-right National Front. The struggle against racism has, of course, to be led by people of colour who suffer the consequences — such as Black Out UK , which fights for a platform for black gay men, and Media Diversified , which campaigns for minority representation in the media. But unless white LGBT people — who the official gay scene venerates — listen to the voices of those who are sidelined, little will change.
Being oppressed yourself does not mean you are incapable of oppressing others: LGBT people have had to struggle against bigotry and oppression for generations. It is tragic that they inflict and ignore injustice in their own ranks. Carl from London told FS magazine: Asian and South Asian gay men report similar experiences. In a sad comment he told FS: So racism is a bigger issue for me. The racism Black gay men face today seems to indicate that far too many white gay men have attitudes that reflect Britain's colonial era, with many expressing a crude and unreconstructed racism.
The extent of gay racism extends into social media.
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