I came to my attention that Dan Savage and a few other LGBT activists are claim that the black community was responsible for Prop 8 and Amendment 1 passing. And as such they've created a new campaign with the slogan "Gay is the new black".
They are wrong.As it turns out, the black community isn't more likely to vote against gay rights than non-black communities. In fact, it seems that racially diverse community are more likely to vote
for LGBT rights. Race isn't a significant factor in determining who goes against LGBT rights; instead it's political affiliation and religiosity that determines how people vote.
So that's is why people did claim it was wrong for people like Dan Savage to accuse the black community of homophobia. It's not only wrong, it plays right into the hands of bigots like NOM who would love to turn the black community against the LGBT community. Furthermore, the "gay is the new black" campaign ignores the fact that anti-black racism is still a real thing in the United States. It assumes that racism is over, when it so clearly isn't. And it erases and ignore the experiences for queer people of color who faces homophobia/transphobia/biophobia/heterosexism and racism. Gay can't be the new black, because black is still a thing.
