Is Gay the New Black? - video.newsweek.com

[MysteriousNicSociety]

@Poohpodoo gays want to not be discriminate and have all the rights as other married couples

[Poohpoodoo]

As a wife,mother and tax payer I have to say that homosexuals have RIGHTS.WHAT MORE RIGHTS DO YOU WANT? To marry? Whatever.It's paper.To vote? YOU DO.What else? What more do you want?

[matrixmaster79]

Political agendas have focused upon the gay population as the last frontier and means to help further their vote momentum, they have magnified them and their lifestyle in the media, it comes no where near being black in comparison just because you choose an alternative lifestyle. Not bashing anyone, but who would benefit from appealing to their needs? Not the local Mcdonalds corporation, they got gay and straight money, u gotta feed ya self regardless. Politicians help remove the veil of shame.

[clubindiana4]

@matrixmaster79 "Not bashing anyone, but who would benefit from appealing to their needs?"

Well...McDonalds isn't really a realistic example...as McDonalds targets poor people. Gays don't generally fall into that group. Advertisers refer to gays as DINKS...double income with no kids...and their buying power is substantial. Up to 25% higher than average households.

A good example of buying power is a magazine sales rack. Compare the number of gay magazines and black magazines by % of population

[Pizuzuzimmer]

No, it's not. And only stupid people who don't know any history even think it's a reasonable question.

[EliasJordan3]

@Pizuzuzimmer And why is that?

[dissidia123456789]

Gay Blacks will always side with the black race b/c they know white people are shifty whether they be gay or straight, male or female, young or old, blonde or brunette. It's safer to stay and side with your race b/c you never know what these tactful people are up too.

[MrDisgrace13]

lets ship them all away from america

[mazambulla]

gay is the new white not black

[CamillaCalamity]

Gay is the new black? hm...I thought navy was.

[love4niggers]

@CamillaCalamity ahahah - lolll, thats a good one

[backwoodsninja]

As much as I want to jump in on the debate, something tells me that youtube is not the place where any kind of productive dialogue will take place. I will say that "Gay Is The New Black" is not a very smart slogan, because it inevitably invites the debate of who has suffered more. Also, there are black conservatives and black Christians who would not want to be included in such an inclusive slogan.

[Sileni]

@1:35- 2:00-2:20 Makes it pointedly so...

Get arise out of people, by comparing yeah right - NOT HAPPENING!

[falaho]

Homos, lesbos better realize the spirit of jezabelle is real. hell will be the home of those who choose this lifestyle. given a choice of hell for personal pleasure or heaven for doing whats right, I choose heaven. these people are sad and so mislead

[andy0705b]

@falaho then why did god make them that way

[Tsuruta1]

There is NO comparison whatever, comparing the so-called gay rights to Civil Rights Movement for Black Americans and other nationalities in the minority is pure SOPHISM.

[tofugodess12]

Ok..i need to say this as a black lesbian let me say this...The whole getting hung on trees..ummm this actually was not a very common occurence. And actually what they dont tell you is that some of this people who were hanged were actually black homosexuals. Anywho back to the topic....Being hung in public and being beat to death in public is the same exact thing...both are publicized murder brought on because of hatred of a minority. So do some research before you speak!!

[dissidia123456789]

@tofugodess12 cousin was hung 4 years ago ..umm your right it wan't a common occurence. Being shot in the back of the head for just glancing at a white women was. Straight Black woman, by the way. Besides, you should know better about what we are going through. We need to help ourselves before we help others. I'm sure our struggles aren't important to them. This is just stupidness.

[vangouh1]

Gays already have Hollywood, Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter, and the Democratic party.

The media right wing lunatics, and liberals.

[Rangerpjonwebx]

The conservatives are still pitting Blacks against Gays: killing two birds with one stone.

[tubeman142]

STOP COMPARING BLACKS TO GAYS, OR IT WILL GET UGLY..... I'm sure people won't say "all Jews are like gays" how bad does that sound

[ElCierto]

@tubeman142 You are so foolish. They are not comparing blacks to gays, but the "suffering and denying of rights to them". Have you ever thought about the fact that there are thousands of people who are black AND gay? Think outside of the box please. You probably want notice too many people who are both, because it is hard being both. We care just as much as white gays.

[BXTALE]

@tubeman142 Yeah, Agreed

[spareld]

@tubeman142 I agree I can't stand this shit!!!

[fefe1mania]

I am glad some one from the Gay community whom is Black made it clear that you can not compare. How is it Black People are wrong for the outcome? We are still fighting for our 40 acre in a mule LOL (JOKING) seriously though how are Black People wrong? Honestly lets just get to the real issue which is Gay rights, Black rights, Human rights and Civil rights... now we can move on and tackle the hassle.

[Wolfbloodvamps171]

I don't forget about any LGBT people black, white, asian, mexican, they're all my people.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

Blaming the black community is wrong on many levels, but....

...the numbers do not support the notion that blacks gave Prop 8 its margin of victory.

Exit polls say that 70% of the black vote was in favor of Proposition 8 and that African-Americans comprised 10% of the vote.

I'm not sure that exit polls are good for this kind of math, but it appears that even if no African-Americans voted in the California election, Proposition 8 would have still passed.

[wonderpup30]

This is a BAD, BAD, BAD slogan. It will divide at a time when unity is necessary. It opresses at a time when progress is regquired. Gay marriage=YES! This slogan=NO!

[kitmarq]

I see a fundamental difference between "separate but equal" as applied to race, vs. "separate but equal" as applied to sex.

Blacks and whites have no significant differences.

Men and women are significantly different.

The gay marriage argument hinges on the idea that it is "oppression" to recognize that babies derive benefits from both their mother and their father. They insist that sex must be viewed as interchangeable - except when they want to have sex.

[PROX1771]

Gays should all be banned from our society, fuck em.

[Sperogyro]

Black people can't choose what color their skin is. People can choose who they choose to have sex with. A skin color or who you prefer to have sex with is not even in the same league. It's not even in the same universe. The perverted always like to claim they are discriminated against, but is it wrong to not allow someone to marry a 10 year old? Yes, that would be perverted and so it two guys having gay sex.

[redmtal]

you are fucking retarded. there is no hope for you

[Wolfbloodvamps171]

People choose who they have sex with you're right. But people can't choose who they fall in love with. Being gay is not about the sex it is about love.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

The poll was 2,240 people.10% of the voters were black (as compared to 6.7%, which is the total black population of the state)70% of black voters polled said they voted yes

Rounding up, that's a grand total of 157 people.The number of white voters who voted yes? Around 670.

[cristina336]

This is really crazy I agree that it is very impossible to get all black ppl to have a say, I'm blk n didn't have a say... I agree that gay ppl have it hard but I'm not going to go as far & say that "Gay is the New Black" ... Gay people are this generations reasoning for being prejudice!!! 4 Ppl to say that ppl r going to hell b/c of their sex is FUCKING STUPID!!! If something bad shall happen (God forbid) to u, all of a sudden there is a God or whomever you pray to!!! Get off yourself let ppl b

[2nuggs1]

im white and love black culture and music.....but these fucking fags will go to hell.....there fucked up in the brain to be attracted to the same sex, plain and simple there fucked up in the head...just being honest

[Wolfbloodvamps171]

Being gay is about love not sex. You are fucked up in the head hater.

[2nuggs1]

who said anything about having sex fag???......gay people cant have sex, whatever you want to call it, its not sex....its more like mutual rape lol....im fucked up???...sure thing coming from a guy with a dick in his ass haha....o by the way guys are supposed to be with girls so theres prob something wrong with you.....i cant belive you dont like pussy...i just dont get it

[Nubiah9]

F***THAT...

[Darmani421]

Let me end this religious debate right here and now.

There is No god.

NO GOD.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

There are so many christians in this country and the jail system has so many Afrian's locked up on bogus charges or, trying to survive in white supremacist psychopathic country, how in the hell could 70% of blacks vote against gay marriage? I mean where are the lists. Give me the records or else stop creating problems on top of problem.

[Aries041487]

I am Irish and German but I respect blacks a lot. Not to mention that black women are beautiful . . . especially when they smile.

I know it must be hard living in a country where the president resides in THE WHITE HOUSE and all the currency in the United States has white people imprinted on them as well.

But keep your chin up and stay positive . . . things will get better . . . maybe not today or tommorrow but someday it will.

[Wolfbloodvamps171]

It is a fact that 70% of blacks vote against gay marriage. Do research on it and you'll see.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

NO and I have done my research devil and you have not. Stop regurgitating ashkenzim bullshit and read and research yourself. It was actually white supremacists who's votes supported prop 8 but they won't tell you that. They also won't tell you that white supremacist ashkenzi fags and dykes were attack people of color protesting WITH THEM! So fuck off with your disinformation.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

Total votes in favor of Prop 8 - 5,419,478

Total votes against Prop 8 - 4,908,887

(sum total vote 10,328,235)

estimated number of black votes - 1,032,836

estimated black votes in favor of Prop 8 - 722,985

estimated black votes against Prop 8 - 309,851

Estimated votes for Prop 8 without black votes - 4,696,493

Estimated votes against Prop 8 without black votes - 4,599,036

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

These laws sound good and look good on paper but if they were to come to fruition than white supremacy would have to stop. There are certain loop holes in these laws. As lesbian who's been isolated for year from my own people and batted around like a tennis ball by whites and other folks of color for articulating the pathology of whiteness in conjunction with the state of black people, I'm really sick of this crap. White LGBTQ don't go to the mega white churches and protest their.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

No body wants to talk about incidents like Katrina because it's too close to the truth. If people know the truth they won't feel sorry for the poor (rich as hell actually) LGBTQ now and forever complaining that blacks aren't "being good niggers" and following orders. That's the main reason jewish folks are pushing for hate crime laws all over the place.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

I've been as active in the community as white gays and lesbians would allow me to be and, with out totally loosing myself and giving into the pressure to take on characteristics that aren't my own. The fact of the matter is we are expendable in every since of the word. Look at Katrina. Many gay/lesbian business are receiving help while there are a litany of stories about Africans loosing their homes and lives.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

I sat at a gay marriage forum with only 6 other African lesbians and listened to a group from Oregon spout their disgust for black preachers and black women. This was what about 9 years ago. Right after they spoke my mouth opened and I was cut off by a jewish man then, I believe, the head of the TaskForce, who ran down exactly what I'm saying here, only he was extremely arrogant as if his history had nothing to do with slavery and monopolization of chattel slavery and on.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

We are still not seen as human and therefore white supremacy ideologies and the mind control that goes with it is over looked because the masses are putting their energy into demonizing us for the way they created their social construct. Edward Bernay's would be proud. Very proud.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

and providing them with rewards for regurgitating the same hate speech, ahhh lol, most will force themselves to believe it our fault white supremacist LBGTQ aren't getting THEIR rights. It no longer matters if folks like myself are lesbian or gay. The strategy is one of programming.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

This is what's being used here. If you create a problem and blame a group that has been rendered legally, financially, and in some cases spiritually handicapped, provide statistics (science) as proof of their injustice against white supremacist who are in this case LGBTQ, for a long enough period of time, sooner or later, especially with the mental masturbation the quick fixes and other 'conveniences, combined with silent threats of physical harm to people who don't agree with you of any color

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

Also, when white LGBTQ were open with out consequence they were what? Raping, stealing, lying, murdering, butchering and selling the body parts of the African slaves. White supremacist LBGTQ are very familiar with the psychology terrorist tactics of their forefathers and mothers.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

The only reason why white supremacist LGBTQ were persecuted was due to the economy. Research is key and Revisionist history on a history already greatly revised to marginalize if not completely erase the fact that much of the technology and sciences, spirituality turned religion, were stolen from the libraries of Kemet.

[TruthHurtzAllDaTime]

Every thing wrong in white supremacist's lives is always blamed on Africans. They won't attention and they know very well will not be had pleading to their own kind. White LBGTQ have not always been persecuted. If anyone knows history they know this is fact.

[kingpinronin]

using the term 'gay is the new black' is not constructive, its flippant, divisive, a false wedge issue. it will not garner votes. it will not garner constructive debate. it does harm to the cause. it shows just how uncoordinated and unsofisticated some of these activists are, even to people who are in their own ranks, but not of the same color. you cant tell me an integrated lgbt, black, asian, latino, anglo community came up with this slogan???

[Wbeliever7]

comparing the gay rights movement to civil rights is ridiculous!

[gaydizo]

Comparing the gay rights movement to civil rights is right on target - both are about JUSTICE & EQUALITY. Those who don't "get that" are most like the very people denying us justice & equality in the first place. Go figure.

[Wbeliever7]

I think its positively insulting. Their struggle was nothing like the struggle that homosexuals have. You have rights, you haven't been enslaved. You cannot be sold and bought. Your families are not forced apart. Certainly people disagree with you and rightly so but to say that you are struggling even remotely like the african american people do is ignorant and so so offensive.

[donisthabomb1]

i guess if someone wants to marry a cow or dog then let them, why are they being discriminated against?

i mean, is Beastiality the new Gay?

[GRACEpour86178]

_YOURFREEGAYWEBSITE.C0M_ and the word gay in the title didnt tip u off?

[RoseEEOE]

"I've known a few homosexuals, and every single one tries to flaunt their sexuality"

The vast majority of gay people you have met you have probably passed off as straight. The obvious ones are obvious, and I am not suprized they are sterotyped like that.

Not to mention that almost every hetero is 'flaunting' their sexuality more than the majority of gay people that are accused of it ('absurd' things like sitting/walking next to their partner, or mentioning them without a false pronoun)

[crewnose]

People are born with different cultural backgrounds and skin colors. So when they wake up in the morning you have no choice but to be who you are. But being gay is a CHOICE. Saying black is the new gay is just a devicive slogan to meet an end to what same sex marriages want.

[Turkeysonfire]

how can you say being gay is a choice?

wtf would any one chose to be an outsider or put themselves through the trouble of outing themselves etc.

you think people are gay to shock people?

to be controversial?

trust me if it was a choice i think no one would be gay

but the fact of the matter is, is it is NOT A CHOICE

don't be ignorant to things you can't understand

[crewnose]

Well it's obvious when a black person is born, they are born black. When a white person is born, they are born white. They have no say in the matter. No Choice. FOREVER, unless they CHOOSE to have a skin pigmentation operation. For whatever reason I don't know. So unless there is a gay gene which i highly doubt in the DNA which forces people to love the same sex,, everyone should not be calling this a minority,,, but instead a popular club people can join.

[Hollywoodsteve]

If you really want to know if a person made a choice on their being gay, ask a gay person. I am quite certain they have the last word on the issue.

[crewnose]

So if a gay person decided to go straight, would that be choice?

[Turkeysonfire]

thank you, you have highlighted the point perfectly

gay people can't decide to be straight

haven't you heard of those shock therapy and mental institutions that gay people used to be sent to?

there are even some churches if you look hard enough that claim they can turn a gay person straight

now why would people put themselves through all this if they WANTED to be gay? and whats more none of it worked

[crewnose]

So you mean to tell me that there is not one person on this planet that turned away from a sex same relationship and decided to marry or get involved with the opposite sex?

You mean not one person decided,,, this is not what I want, I would rather go straight?

[uraine7626]

what? The same way you ask was homosexuality a choice. Is being straight a choice. Prove to me that be straight isn't a choice. Find me the gene said people are born straight. You write ignorant shit, and think you are making common sense, but u not.

[uraine7626]

To know that gay is a choice or that straight is a choice. Ask yourself this, what do u love? And kind someone make you love something else that is different from what u love? For example, I am heterosexual and can't imagine myself being with someone of the same sex. Don't want to. I wouldn't be able to if I try hard as hell to.Because even if I had sex with that person, I would never feel the desire to be in love with that person. So that the same way homosexual feel, bitch.

[uraine7626]

Regardless of sexuality being a choice or not. Homosexuals are still being mistreated, neglect, and show violent against, just like blacks were and still is being in this country. It not about being genetics, dumb bitch. It's about rights, treatments and respect for other people's life, decisions, and etc. Genetics or no genetics.

[thechoosendude]

I've known a few homosexuals, and every single one tries to flaunt their sexuality and act like they are superior. They try and force their views upon others.

They don't want equal rights, they want to be superior... just like what blacks want.

[OFLiPPYO]

actually every gay person ive met just want to marry who they love. Nobody wants to be superior, they just want the same rights that christian,heterosexual,america­n men and women have. Everyone knows the christian, heterosexual, american male think that they are superior and thats why every nation hates America.

[xxFeederx]

i hate america

[Asmith83]

"i've known a few homosexuals..."

obviously you have as the ones you associate with aren't representative of that population at large. all we want is equality, something that all americans, regardless of orientation, have a right to.