Report Says SF Homosexual Community Discriminates Against Blacks

For all of their talk of tolerance, the homosexual community has a few discriminatory skeletons in their closet.

Kieth Boykin, a Black (and I assume gay) blogger reports on how the Gay community in San Francisco has historically discriminated against African-Americans.

In his classic poem "Tongues Untied," black gay poet Marlon Riggs reflects on his experience of moving to San Francisco decades ago. "In this great gay mecca," he writes, "I was an invisible man, still. I had no shadow, no substance. No history, no place. No reflection."

Marlon Riggs is not alone. Black gay men have complained for years about racism in the gay community, but many of these complaints have been dismissed by the larger gay community as the rantings of a few. Now comes a new report from the San Francisco Human Rights Commission that confirms what many of us have known all along: racism is alive and well, even in the legendary Castro district of San Francisco.

The following are just two examples given by Boykin:

Kaya Nati filed the first complaint with the Human Rights Commission in 2001 when Les Natali told him that it was not “costume night”. Kaya is an immigrant from Jamaica and, at the time, was an outreach worker for San Francisco’s Stop AIDS Project. He was dressed in afro-centric clothing. Les literally ordered him to leave, retrieved Kaya’s bag from bag check, threw it on the sidewalk and told the doorman to give him his money back. Kaya died on Tuesday, April 12, two weeks to the day before the HRC findings were released.

After attending church the night of September 11, 2001, Gertrude East, an African American woman, entered Badlands with friends. Within moments, she was ejected without cause. She and several witnesses report that Natali told her white friends, "You can stay, but that's not welcome here." Ms. East and her friends called the police, who, upon arrival, said, "Let me guess: Wrong color or wrong gender?" and told Natali, "You should be utterly ashamed."

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that at the very same time the homosexual community is trying to attach themselves to the civil rights bandwagon which has mainly been successful due to the efforts of Black activists, they are openly violating the civil rights of Blacks?

Craig DeLuz

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