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BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
4. It is impossible to do from your perspective, not for Charles.
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 09:29 AM
Aug 2021

From Baldwin, which Charles Blow links to:

Did you ever hear antigay rhetoric in church?

Not in the church I grew up in. I’m sure that’s still true. Everyone is a child of God, according to us.

Didn’t people ever call you faggot uptown?



Of course. But there’s a difference in the way it’s used. It’s got less venom, at least in my experience. I don’t know of anyone who has ever denied his brother or his sister because they were gay. No doubt it happens. It must happen. But in the generality, a black person has got quite a lot to get through the day without getting entangled in all the American fantasies.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/06/22/james-baldwin-on-being-gay-in-america/

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