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"This is one of the ways white supremacist cispatriarchy kills."
- Son of Baldwin"LaSala found that young black boys—both gay and straight—feel tremendous pressure to grow up and become strong black men who are 'armored to battle racism and social barriers with a veneer of hypermasculinity.' That masculinity, he says, is characterized by toughness, control, poise, emotional stoicism and a hyperheterosexuality—always eager to prove one’s manhood through female conquests and outward expressions of strength.
For gay African-American boys still suffocating in the closet, those expectations are particularly acute. Simply by virtue of who they are, they feel they’re rejecting 'black masculinity'—and thereby betraying the already victimized and denigrated image of black men in American society."
Black Parents, Gay Sons and Redefining Masculinity:
http://www.theroot.com/articles/…