Clay Cane: "Homophobia Effects Me More Than Racism"

Prolific black, gay blogger Clay Cane tackles one of the issues we often struggle with at the intersection of race and sexuality. For those of us in the world of activism, we are sometimes challenged by statements like, "Racism is more of a problem than homophobia," or we are often asked, "What is more important, your blackness or your gayness"? Cane writes:

No one prepared me for homophobia. No one told me how to combat it, why it's there, or showed me documentaries. There wasn't a Martin Luther King, Jr. or Malcolm X for me to admire when the road got heavy…when I had been damned to hell too many times…when I heard gay men are destined to die of AIDS…when I was told it was unnatural…when I was told I could change if I really wanted to…when my family rejected me…when my family finally stopped rejecting me but I still can't mention "it" in their presence. On the daily, I am more affected by homophobia.

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