We’re sorry. An annual call to march in the King Day parade does not create the presence of black gay leadership or a black LGBT community for that matter. The fact that it takes the same effort to get 30 or so gay black folks together as it does to put together a rally in West Hollywood for thousands indicates that there lives a significant amount of dysfunction in the black LGBT community surrounding identity and self-loathing homophobia among other issues.
We really can’t point fingers at Rick Jacobs, EQCA or anybody else for that matter without addressing the bamboozlement that’s off-handidly referred to as leadership in the local black LGBT community. The fact is, there isn’t any. And to our knowledge as natives of Los Angeles, there never has been.
Oh, we could go down the laundry list of well worn names: Cleo Manago, Jeffrey King, Rev. Alfreda Lanoix, Jewel of Catch One? Um…um…oh. Okay. We guess that’s it.
We don’t count black folks who either work for organizations outside of the black community or live outside of the black community. Nope. Sorry. And that ain’t hate. That’s just the reality of it. If you don’t live in the black community how the hell you gonna manifest and teach the love of self for others who need it in the black community?
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