That Gay Thread

[Huggy Bear]

Yeah, gay people are sooo oppressed... Let's be real, we're in a system of white supremacy which has nothing to do with sexual orientation, Hell J. Edgar Hoover, the guy responsible for COINTELPRO which targeted blacks was LBGT.

Or that systems of oppression tend to encompass several different aspects of people's lives, race and sexual orientation being two of them. It's not like oppressive systems have just one thing they hate and everyone outside that single thing has free rein to do whatever they want. Seriously, how the fuck do I have to be person to explain this to you?

Yes, Hoover was (likely) LGBT. He was also closeted all his life and, because of this, it turns out the issue of his sexuality is actually murky enough that at least one biography claims he was probably asexual. And to drive my point home further, despite his possible homosexuality, helped to champion a purge of homosexuals in the government that ran parallel with the Red Scare, and even had Joe McCarthy spearheading it (surprisingly, the Lavender Scare had even more victims than the Red Scare). The other person apart from McCarthy and Hoover to make this happen? Roy Cohn, who was also in the closet all his life, but whose homosexuality is all but certain.

Black people just need to get over themselves.  I went there.

Which oppressive system targeted gay people? Slavery? The black codes? Jim Crow? Redlining? Yet bills are being signed that specify LBGT, name any bills that are specific to black people.