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Gay Racism Further Exposed: Gay Real World Cast Member Says, "N%$@#$"

Artevia Wilborn
On December 6,2006 the third episode of MTV's The Real World Denver aired. This season, like many prior seasons of the Real World, uncovered a seldom discussed topics in America. This episode internationally exposed gay racism.

This season of Real Worlders go out to clubs like any other cast before them except that this episode's night escapades takes a turn for the worst. This night Davis gets drunk at a club and returns to the house before the others to use the phone to call his boyfriend. Stephen is angry because a club manager called him a "ni**er" at the club and thinks that Davis may have left him while he was being called names. Stephen tells Tyrie about the club incident and Tyrie begins an argument with Davis, demanding to know if he abandoned Stephen.

A drunk Davis calls Tyrie a ni**er, which seems to shocks everyone in the house. However, this type of racial prejudice expressed by an openly gay man is sadly not unheard in the white gay community.

In fact, in April pf 2006, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission found that S.F. Badland, one of the largest and most popular bars in the heart of the gay Castro neighborhood, had discriminated against African American customers and job applicants.

"I have been called 'big, black nigger bitch' while walking on the street in the Castro," said Zwazzi Sowo, a lesbian who has lived in San Francisco for 20 years. "I am 52 years old. Nowhere else in my life have I experienced walking down the street and someone calling me a nigger."

"White gay clubs in Dallas, and throughout America, have the audacity to have 'Negro night' once a week (a designated night when Blacks are welcomed in white gay clubs) in the 21st Century. " said Adrian Harris, Vice Chairman of the Abe Lincoln Black Republican Caucus (ALBRC), a civic group of young Black gay and bisexual men.

Within the hidden gay world lies a myriad of gay racial slurs. For example: Rice Queen is said to be a homosexual non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to Asian men. A potato queen a gay Asian male who prefers to date (usually old and pathetic) Caucasian men. Sticky rice is term that describes gay Asian men who prefer dating within their race. An Oreo faggot is a slur directed at gay men who date outside their race, usually describing Black and White gay couples and the sad song plays on.

How an already oppressed and discriminated segment of society can continue to hate members within their own community is appalling. One thing is clear, Houston, the gay community has a problem.

Published by Artevia Wilborn

Grew up in a large extended family near the sandy beaches and extremely diverse playground of South Florida. Studied dance and art as a child. Went to FSU joined every group you can think of and the band pla...  View profile

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  • Sam5/13/2012

    gay white men are the most racist of all white men; people keep calling them gay men but that is like saying an african american who lives in new york a new yorker. such a description is incomplete. it is misleading. gay men(white) are gay white men adn not white gay men that is their primarily identity is white.
    They hate non whites, they hate non white gays! and dont even think that black and brown gays should be in "their gay clubs" should be treated equally or with dignity.
    The time has come to expose the strong Neo Nazi socialized racial hatred of the gay white community.

  • Tim7/28/2010

    What's with all these labels? If one guy who happens to be homosexual (Davis) uses a racial slur, why does it have to reflect on me? Since when are gay people a single entity with collective accountability, and why is that identity emphasized more than Davis' race, religion, or sex? Since the article directly acknowledges that there are gay people of color, how is the concept of "gay racism" not an oversimplification? Are white gay people the only "real" gay people? How responsible of you, Associated Content.

  • What a bunch of..7/7/2010

    Puerile nonsense. The gay community thrown under the bus by some race fetish weilding, obsessed and clearly biased straight minority? Say it ain't so! lol. Where do you stupid breeders get those blinders? Since it is so personally profitable and satisfying for you to hold Gays at arms length for giggles and to appear knowledgable, maybe you can tell me how it is to be outclassed by a gay man who DOES use racial slurs? I mean he apologized, while the house members and the audience, including the fool who wrote this post turned their little sanctimonious backs to the reality of an obvious and glaring defamation of the gay man because he is well, gay. You should read this to your "diversity in Christ" church groups, if this is what the African American community posses in the way of wisdom on the subject of racism and homophobia and it intersections, then yes, be prepared to be outclassed at every possible turn, forever. Unbelievable.

  • Nick@Nite5/2/2010

    I find this article to be appalling and sad, in the least. I am a proud, gay black male and I ask nothing of anyone else in this world other than to be allowed to be myself. I pass no judgment on others because we are all different and all unique. I personally do not take offense to that word because I know who I am and I was taught early on that the N word is used in context to an ignorant person (regardless of race) which I am not. Its sad to know that in 2010, we still have these issues.....let's get it together people.

  • not so sure1/16/2009

    Really? You're going to go there? I lived in D.C. in the 1980's. Try writing about Homophobia in the African-American community. Try writing about racism in the African-American community. And when you're done with that, try writing about the nepotism of the African-American community.

    Those are REAL issues.

  • Your name12/28/2008

    may all faggots die. I cant stand seeing them. It is time that straight people start to isolate these abnormal pieces of shits again and put them in the corner. Damn, i forgot, these faggots are in high places and they have made legislation so this is impossible and illegal. Damn. Straight people, we might as well kill ourselves.

  • hector10/25/2008

    i am deaf A.S.L and bigot puerto rican. hate mexico and other.

  • bill cosbey5/29/2008

    i'm a nigger!

  • Newbie1/7/2008

    They have nerve to be racist considering the life style they lead........ I'm lol

  • John5/13/2007

    I am a white gay male. The other day two black guys drove down my street and parked their cars to smoke a joint. My roommate (also gay) and I went out on the balcony just to eat breakfast. Well, I suppose the guys thought we were upset with them (which by the way, we didn't care) so they sped off and screamed "faggots" at us. Don't get me wrong, I am just justifying that anyone ever ever use the "n" word. In fact, whether you are gay or straight doesn't matter--it shouldn't be used. But my point is: we all know that and it's unacceptable. Why then, is it seemingly perfectly acceptable for those in the straight black community as faggots (because, let's be honest, unless you live in backwoods nowhereland it's not acceptable even among white folks)??? To me, it just seems like a double standard. If it's not okay for us to call each other "faggot", then why is it acceptable for those in the black community to call not only us "faggot" but themselves the "n" word? Political correctne

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