![]() | Puppetmaster: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Richard Hack
Buy used from: $0.01 J. Edgar Hoover, wasn't out about being gay, but his FBI played a major role in breaking up activist groups of color. I've heard many a white gay say, "Farrakhan, Colin Powell, and other Black leaders have the nerve to be anti-gay but fight racism." Hoover proves there are white gays who oppress people of color.
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![]() | The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Masters
Buy used from: $16.33 Of Dahmer's approximate 17 victims, about 13 of them were Black men. He used racism to get white cops think a Southeast Asain boy was his lover and then he killed the victim after the police left.
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![]() | Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Patricia Morrisroe
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $5.04 This photographer made a book that expresses that Black men are only attractive due to their penis size. Many Black gay activists have complained about him and in response whites have suggested, "So!? You should be glad that anyone wanted to take a photo of you!!!"
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![]() | Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $0.01 Urvashi Vaid recalls that when she was made the leader of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, someone called and said, "You can't hire her! She's practically a n*gg*r!" Further, someone suggested that her VP should be a "cute, white, male" in order to balance things out.
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![]() | Lanterns On The Levee - Recollections Of A Planter's Son by William Alexander Percy
Buy new: $42.95 / Used from: $42.63 At first, W.A. Percy, a GWM, opposed the Klan and tried to rescue Blacks trapped in a Hurricane Katrina-like situation. Later, when a Black man was shot by a white police officer, Percy called Black leaders into a church and told them it was their fault because Blacks were so lazy and immoral.
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![]() | Black Men-White Men: A Gay Anthology
Buy new: $14.35 / Used from: $4.00 Fetishy, but still, there are some good points about racism in the gay community. One person writes that a gay club stopped entrants because the door policy is used to exclude Black men. However, since the club didn't exclude Black men, the club then "went Black."
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![]() | Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives by Peter A. Jackson
Buy new: $72.00 / Used from: $25.00 This book recalls that an Australian magazine put an Asian man on its cover and a reader wrote in, "Don't put men like him on the cover! Only put hot guys on the cover!"
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![]() | Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussions by Ron Jackson Suresha
Buy used from: $0.01 A Puerto Rican bear recalled how a bear group was starting and a white bear made very clear he wanted the group to be all white and that the PR bear's presence wasn't welcome. I've met white bears who get upset if you called a fat man ugly, but then will be the first to call black or Asian men unattractive due to their race and think nothing of it.
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![]() | Love! Valour! Compassion!
Buy used from: $15.19 A white character complains, "You donate money to help out cute, Black babies and then they grow up to be violent, n*gg*rs who will rob you!" Luckily, a Puerto Rican man takes the guy to task for the remark.
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![]() | One More River to Cross: Black & Gay in America by Keith Boykin
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $5.10 When gay rights groups prioritized fighting the military ban, they barely approached Perry Watkins, a Black man. The groups claimed that he wouldn't take out his nose ring. However, others have said he was excluded because gay rights groups wanted to present masculine, white men as the victims, not the many women and people of color who get fired due to the bigoted policy.
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![]() | Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (Sexual Cultures Series) by Dwight McBride
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $8.82 This Northwestern professor stated how racist he finds it when white, gay E-harmony posters go out of their way to say, "Not interested in Black men, don't contact me!"
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![]() | More Man Than You'll Ever Be!: Gay Folklore and Acculturation in Middle America (Midland Book) by Joseph P. Goodwin
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.01 This anthropological book has a whole chapter on jokes against Black women that gay white men tell each other.
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![]() | The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Extra Frills Edition)
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $5.97 This film is supposed to empower gay men, but it has a racist depiction of an Asian woman squirting balls out of her lower body. Later, a Japanese man receives an inflatable woman. In its Aussie context, it may be both xenophobic and racist.
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![]() | Nine Lives
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $5.91 A white man gets topped and calls his Black and Latino partners by epithets. In fairness, the character dies a violent and premature death.
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![]() | Tongues Untied
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $14.55 This documentary mentions how Black men get excluded at the entrance of gay clubs.
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![]() | Quinceanera
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $2.06 A gay white couple use a young Latino man as a boy toy and then cast him to the side.
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![]() | John Holmes, a Life Measured in Inches by Jennifer Sugar
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $26.00 Later in his life, well-endowed porn star John Holmes had gay sex and might have done gay porn. I read online that he refused to do porn scenes with Blacks.
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![]() | Jeffrey
Buy used from: $4.96 With the exception of the token, Black BF, all the men of color in this film are to the margins or in subservient roles. This film very much expresses, "White men at the center! Others in the distance!"
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![]() | A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America (Asian American History & Cultu) by Lavina Shankar
Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $2.59 A gay Indian man goes on a blind date and the white date implies how upset he is that the man is not East Asian. Instead of just going through the date, the white man claims to need to go the bathroom and never comes back.
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![]() | African America's 3rd Rail, SGL by Max Smith
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $18.58 The author says in Chicago, bar owners were adamant that they should have the right to require Black men to show more IDs than other men.
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![]() | Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok by Neil Miller
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $0.05 South Africa has a blatant racist history in which whites were at the top and Blacks at the bottom. The American author documents in shock how he met numerous gay, white South Africans who were highly offended that Blacks got affirmative action.
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![]() | Losing Matt Shepard by Beth Loffreda
Buy new: $16.46 / Used from: $4.17 In a footnote early in the text, the author notes that at least one Native American student said they don't attend the gay student group of which hate crime victim Matthew Shepard was probably a member because of the racism in the campus' gay community.
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![]() | My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story by Bobby Blake
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.20 This Black porn star complained to white porn award organizers that no man of color received any awards. Luckily, the organizers took his concerns to heart and made an "ethnic entry" category in order to diversify winners.
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![]() | Becoming Two-Spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Country by Brian Joseph Gilley
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $0.98 Instead of supporting his lover's embrace of Native culture, a white gay man is quoted as saying, "If I hear one more drum, I'll scream!"
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![]() | Shades of Love: Black Homosexuality Volume 1
I forgot the specifics, but the interviewees here list examples of racism in the gay community.
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![]() | Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety by Marjorie Garber
Buy new: $34.15 / Used from: $16.49 Though the men may not have been out in today's sense, this book says several white gay men of the fin-de-siecle enjoyed portraying/deriding Black women in minstrel shows.
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![]() | Images of Ambiente: Homotextuality and Latin American Art, 1810-Today by Rudi C. Bleys
Buy new: $72.00 / Used from: $3.47 The author points to one Spanish painter who painted all Native men to look alike. Even the author says the message of the painter is racist.
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![]() | Take It Like a Man: The Autobiography of Boy George With Spencer Bright by Boy George
Buy used from: $4.98 Boy George is multi-culty in a non-PC type of way. He's not my target here. His "punk guru" is a gay, Jewish man named Philip Sallon. When they visited Jamaica, Sallon hated it because the island is Black. He added, "I don't fancy schwartez ["Blacks" in German]."
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![]() | Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 : An Oral History by Eric Marcus
Buy used from: $0.09 A Black man went to a meeting of the 1st gay rights group, the Mattachine Society, and recalls that the whites in attendance looked at him and were like, "What are you doing here!?"
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![]() | In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change by Neil Miller
Buy used from: $0.01 The author relates how gay clubs in Tennessee purposely exclude certain music and beer in hopes that Black patrons won't want to visit their establishments.
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![]() | Opacity: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and the Problem of Identity in Martinique (Gender, Sexuality, and Culture, Vol. 2) by David A. B. Murray
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $22.00 A sociologist hears gay Martinican men says, "Martinique is homophobic and France is racist, so the perfect place for us is Quebec." The academic said the men didn't really want to hear it when he told them that Black, gay men have complained vocally about racism in Quebec's gay community.
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![]() | Out at Home: The Glenn Burke Story by Glenn Burke
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $77.05 This biography documents the ways a white, gay Harvard man was abusive to his Black baseball-playing lover.
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