Comments on: Housing Works Update: Where Are All the Black Gay Men? http://kenyonfarrow.com/2009/02/23/housing-works-update-where-are-all-the-black-gay-men/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:08:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Thom Topham http://kenyonfarrow.com/2009/02/23/housing-works-update-where-are-all-the-black-gay-men/#comment-2690 Thom Topham Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:30:05 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.com/?p=723#comment-2690 Get OUT and SHOUT like MEN, guys! And while you're at it, read/listen and look at my autoBLOGography - it's an ongoing, multi-cultural and inclusive account of the cultural history of the UK gay scene - and much more - from the 70s through to the present day. Just up to Chapter 5 at the mo. Have LOADS more to come. Volumes! Thom. Get OUT and SHOUT like MEN, guys! And while you’re at it, read/listen and look at my autoBLOGography – it’s an ongoing, multi-cultural and inclusive account of the cultural history of the UK gay scene – and much more – from the 70s through to the present day. Just up to Chapter 5 at the mo. Have LOADS more to come. Volumes! Thom.

]]> By: elg http://kenyonfarrow.com/2009/02/23/housing-works-update-where-are-all-the-black-gay-men/#comment-1461 elg Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:06:17 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.com/?p=723#comment-1461 I really don't know how to say this so I'll just say it. Phill Wilson, the founder/CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, is a HIV-positive black gay man. Wilson is a pioneer black gay AIDS activist and I have never heard anything bad about him or his organization. I'm wondering, however, why has he been so reluctant to speak up more forcefully about the HIV/AIDS epidemic as it impacts Black Gay Men? I remember the "hot, horny and healthy" 'safe(r) sex' workshops Wilson did with black gay men years ago all over the country. I attended one of those workshops. Perhaps he feels black gay men should know how to have safe(r) sex and if we get infected with HIV/AIDS it's our own fault. Wilson is definitely a black gay hero. But he could do more to advance the cause of black gay men. We need love, too. I really don’t know how to say this so I’ll just say it.

Phill Wilson, the founder/CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, is a HIV-positive black gay man. Wilson is a pioneer black gay AIDS activist and I have never heard anything bad about him or his organization. I’m wondering, however, why has he been so reluctant to speak up more forcefully about the HIV/AIDS epidemic as it impacts Black Gay Men?

I remember the “hot, horny and healthy” ‘safe(r) sex’ workshops Wilson did with black gay men years ago all over the country. I attended one of those workshops. Perhaps he feels black gay men should know how to have safe(r) sex and if we get infected with HIV/AIDS it’s our own fault.

Wilson is definitely a black gay hero. But he could do more to advance the cause of black gay men. We need love, too.

]]> By: elg http://kenyonfarrow.com/2009/02/23/housing-works-update-where-are-all-the-black-gay-men/#comment-1460 elg Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:54:35 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.com/?p=723#comment-1460 White gay men realized way back in the 1980s that no one was going to acknowledge them without a fight. So they kicked in the door. Remember the group ACT-UP? Why are black gay men, 20 years later, thinking that people are going to invite them to the table without a fight? That is magical thinking. Black gay men are going to have to kick the doors in, like the white gay guys did back in the 1980s and 1990s. That expression, 'silence = death', is just as true for black gay men now as it was for white gay men back in the day. White gay men realized way back in the 1980s that no one was going to acknowledge them without a fight. So they kicked in the door. Remember the group ACT-UP?

Why are black gay men, 20 years later, thinking that people are going to invite them to the table without a fight? That is magical thinking. Black gay men are going to have to kick the doors in, like the white gay guys did back in the 1980s and 1990s.

That expression, ‘silence = death’, is just as true for black gay men now as it was for white gay men back in the day.

]]> By: Donald Andrew Agarrat http://kenyonfarrow.com/2009/02/23/housing-works-update-where-are-all-the-black-gay-men/#comment-1459 Donald Andrew Agarrat Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:31:58 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.com/?p=723#comment-1459 Well, someone's global depopulation scheme seems to be working: The People's Republic of China (the world's most populous country) recently (and probably very reluctantly) reported that <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gySAN7g6fNlsQGyMaF7h14UHAObgD96E2FJO0" rel="nofollow">AIDS became its deadliest infectious disease last year</a>. I wonder who will eventually ask where all the Chinese gay men are; neither those silent Black gay men nor people like the laughable and anonymous 'ironsword' ... Well, someone’s global depopulation scheme seems to be working: The People’s Republic of China (the world’s most populous country) recently (and probably very reluctantly) reported that AIDS became its deadliest infectious disease last year. I wonder who will eventually ask where all the Chinese gay men are; neither those silent Black gay men nor people like the laughable and anonymous ‘ironsword’ …

]]> By: Villager http://kenyonfarrow.com/2009/02/23/housing-works-update-where-are-all-the-black-gay-men/#comment-1458 Villager Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:56:15 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.com/?p=723#comment-1458 Hotep! Interesting article. I cross-posted it on our groupsite dedicated to <a href="http://hiv-aids-awareness.collectivex.com/" rel="nofollow">HIV/AIDS Awareness</a> on a 365/24/7 basis. peace, Villager Hotep! Interesting article. I cross-posted it on our groupsite dedicated to HIV/AIDS Awareness on a 365/24/7 basis.

peace, Villager

]]> By: ironsword http://kenyonfarrow.com/2009/02/23/housing-works-update-where-are-all-the-black-gay-men/#comment-1457 ironsword Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:36:24 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.com/?p=723#comment-1457 The best way and most effective way to prevent aids is to stop the sin of homosexuality and fornication. These are sins. The best way and most effective way to prevent
aids is to stop the sin of homosexuality and fornication. These are sins.

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