"I'm more conscious of my skin colour than my sexuality" About 63% of Black and South Asian men said that racism is a bigger issue for them than homophobia

Hijacking. Someone posted something similar to this article on facebook the other day. Full disclosure, I'm mixed white/native but I've got blue eyes and light hair so I just look like a tanned white guy. While racism is a huge problem within the gay community because it is a huge problem in every community I think it's important to highlight the flipside: gay couples in the USA are between 20% and 50% interracial depending on the region, the low side of 20% is still twice as high as the incidence of interracial marriages in straight couples, and in the high end of 50% in states with higher populations of visual minorities that's half of all gay couples.

I think as many people come to the gay table with similar experiences of outsider / rejection regardless of their ethnic or cultural background there is a lot of common ground to be found. I wish I saw this exploited more to the benefit of anti-racism campaigns, when people see a statistic like 50+% their thought process is "oh wow, racial diversity and acceptance is actually the norm, not the other way around, I'd better clean up my act to fit in," or at very least have that play a subconscious factor in their future Grindr response selection. Conversely when people hear stats about how bad racism is their first instinct is to say "well not me, I don't need to change, what are you accusing me of?" and then it turns into a discussion of terms rather than the issue of racism. Gays have a great toolkit for fighting discrimination, let's put it to work.

Of course when I said as much on Facebook I was told I didn't understand because a lot of people assume that I'm white. Where to being unpacking that notion within the context...

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