by: Rev Irene Monroe on The Bilerico Project
August 8, 2007
There has been a lot of talk with enthusiasm and optimism concerning the upcoming historic televised HRC-Logo Forum on issues important to America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer voters. With a star-studded cast of 2008 Democratic presidential hopefuls like frontrunning senators Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama to the low-polling but queer-friendly former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel bringing up the rear, the excitement is palpable in many queer communities across the country.
There is, however, at least one LGBTQ community nationwide that knows very little about the HRC-Logo debate - the LGBTQ community of African descent.
“Why would I know about this debate?,” LaShaun Williams of New Orleans told me. “Before Katrina the black and white gay communities was separated. Now after Katrina even moreso because only those who have money either stayed during the city’s renovation or had money to return back. Our community is smaller and more invisible than ever and the gay paper down here doesn't now and never have circulated where black folks live.”
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