Photo Of Black Gay Father Couple Causes Black Twitter To Overact… But Why?

Beautiful.

THIS IS THE BEST PHOTO OF THE YEAR SO FAR!!! I love it.
Screw the haters.

i thought that was joe budden

Most homophobia, racism and other forms of bias are so ingrained, even the perpetrators aren’t aware of it on a conscious level, and THAT is the problem.

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Beyond Steven, next time get Tyler Perry feature a black gay couple on t
“The Haves and Have Nots”…. This might sound to you as another ignorant profiling post….but the reality us our major source of information aka “miainstreeam media” does not feed us plenty of such imagines to make BGCs “the norm”…in our ‘glasshoused lives':)

I cannot count how many times I’ve seen my mother naked growing up. When she was in a hurry and needed to get us ready, sometimes she did it naked. Many cultures the parent are naked around their kids all the time. I didn’t grew up with any kind of Oedipus Complexes. People criticize too much in this era. Fill up the space of criticism and condescension by feeding hungry children, finding shelter for homeless, teaching under privilege children. Do something and say nothing.

Looks like a happy family getting ready for the day. I guess it is rare for a black gay couple to post a great photo of family life. Maybe if we saw more, it would not be a surprise to some.
Some people just don’t get that families come in all sizes, shapes and colors. As long as there is love, what does it matter?

If USA gays think they have it bad, try gay represenation of ethnic peoples in the so-much-more enlightened UK. Or anywhere else in the world. Like um… Nigeria, Uganda, India… Try just BEING gay there. Right? Now, STFU just look at the lovely picture, smile, go out there and be thankful.

This picture & story is wonderful. It is stories like this that bring us out of the shadows and into the light as real people with the similar life challenges and triumphs as any other. The more visible we are, the less we can be falsely defined – instead, we get to define ourselves as our true and valuable selves. Kudos to these two – we need more of, not less of what these are; strong, brave, caring, loving, black fathers, who just also happen to be gay.

The reason why we don’t see pics like these is because the gay community is a white supremacist construct. They promote white gay couples in love and in prosperity, yet when the show black gay men, it is usually something less than flattering. This picture probably will not make it into mainstream gay media because it will break the perception that white gay men are superior and the be all of the gay world. I love black gay men and black gay love.

Wow….This is very interesting.

why is the word “gay” going in and out of quotation marks? I can’t see the difference in meaning between ‘gay couples’ and ‘ “gay” love’.

I highly doubt the person who wrote “finally a black gay couple” was a reaction to how few they’ve seen or how unlikely it was! There are tons of black men and women who are gay all around the world and I’m positive this person wasn’t just unaware that they may by chance come across someone to start a family with! However I DO think that this person was expressing relief to seeing a positive family dynamic featuring two black men leading a positive example for parenting in social media sites, as opposed to the norm which is the stereotype of gay men being two white males. Similar to the way they would express relief to see plus sized models in a magazine or diversity in a movie, not because these people shouldn’t play these roles but because society has previously forbade it in the past. As you said media sites such as tumblr and on television seldom feature gay couples but when they do those featured are white men in j crew sweaters and neatly combed and styled hair. In reality there are far more demoraphics who identify as gay.

Kind of a tangent — but not really — racism in the gay community and homophobia is unfortunate and comical at best. You’d think a community who has a history that included enslavement for nearly three centuries and went through a century+ of (and continues to go through) marginalization and stigmatization would be the last to contribute to the marginalization that gays face. And vice versa, you’d think a community that is heavily discriminated against, stigmatized and marginalized would be the last one to practice racism, a different form of discrimination.

As a black gay male, I do not identify with neither the black community nor the gay community. Not only does there not exist a place for me in either community (at the forefront of the gay community is the white male and at the forefront of the black community is the straight male), but I simply do not wish to a part of such communities.

And just being blunt and honest, I do think that the discrimination, at large, that both the black community and gay community face is well-deserved. You guys can’t cry foul and then play foul.