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Making a noise by Richard Smith, Gay Times, June, 1995, (No. 202), 10-12.
David McAlmont: "" 'I thought when I first came out, the gay community would be an enlightened one. But racism's rife in the gay community. Going into bars with a white person and buying drinks and watching your change handed back to the white person you're with. Queens that say they don't sleep with black people. White men who are exclusively into black men. It rears its ugly head all the time'."
Dive into Asian Gays [87]
“Within the black and Asian communities there is a general assumption of homosexuality being a white experience and this is intensified by a similar assumption within the lesbian and gay community,” said a Blackliners spokesman... “They sometimes face direct and subtle forms of racism and discrimination from both their own and white communities, and from HIV organisations, said a spokesman from the project. Blackliners, which is based in Brixton, has launched a program targeted at black and Asian men. It offers counselling not only for HIV and AIDS, but also for problems they face with discrimination, sexually or racially... It was the UK’s first festival of Asian lesbian and gay art. Its contributing artists hop
Black on White (G News) July 27, 2001 (Australian Gay Youth Resources)
Is racism rampant on London's gay scene? According to four white gay men who prefer to date black men, it is. Listening to their stories suggests that although the gay community has had a long history of opression, very little has been learnt. Do those men who expose a worrying and hypocritical current which is widespread on the gay scene, or are their experiences exceptional, and unrepresentitive of the norm? Gary Kelly, who was brought up in Glasgow and moved to London in 1981, had always dated white men. His sexual preference was only called into question when, in 1998 at the age of 35, he began dating black men. With much anger he recalls this period.... 32 year old Jonathon Weeb from Norwich moved to London in his twenties was also aware of a prevailing racism on the scene there. "I noticed that some white men didn't even like black gay men going to the gay clubs..." When listening to these men, one gets the feeling that they have all felt like outsiders in the gay community before they began dating black men. If this is true then the term "gay community" is a misnomer... For those of you who do not know, chocoholic is a modern derogatory term, much like dinge queen, for a gay white male attracted to black homosexuals... When people call me a dinge queen, they're saying I go out with dirty people. Gay people don't like to be labelled and stereotyped yet we white gay people do more labelling than any other group in the world. Dinge queen, rice queen, curry queen..." The stories we have heard are speclative, anectodal reflections from a handful of men in a city with a gay population nearing a million, so they cannot be read as definitive...
The Low Down: Black lesbiuan, gay men and bisexuals talk about their experiences and needs. (GALOPs Black Services Development Project, 2001: PDF)
Someone at the club said they didn't want to talk to me because I was black... More than half the sample, 57%, said that they had experienced racism from the white LGB communities. A number of respondents said that the LGB community was no different from mainstream communities when it came to racism. The types of experiences varied from the subtle, treated coolly, treated stereotypically to more direct forms of discrimination such as not getting served in clubs, being ignored and being treated as an exotic sex object. A number of Asian people said that people (from both the LGB and mainstream communities) assumed they were straight simply because they were Asian. A lack of targeted facilities, was seen to be a form of discrimination by some respondents... Most lesbian clubs are geared to white people. If there are more than 10 black lesbians the security becomes more visible. Certain music is not played, as they don’t want to attract black lesbians. Went to one bar near closing time, a member of staff said the bar was closed but they had just let some other people in... White gay men treat me with contempt, I’m either a sex object or I’m invisible...
Racism/Prejudice within the Lesbian community in parts of England (SWJ, 2008)
I'm an out and proud black British Lesbian. In the area I live I would say that 85% of lesbians are white. Many of my lesbian friends whom are all white have said to me they couldnt ever have a relationship with a black girl, asian girl or a oriental girl bascially anyone of colour.I asked them why they feel this way and they just screw up their face and say 'egrh no' . It angers me so much that in this day and age and with the multicultrul society we live in that people can be so one minded.