Outside Your Race, Inside Your Gender: The Sweet Taboo of Homosexuality within the African American Community

Homosexuality is not a subject that very many people would like to discuss when it comes to sex. This is such a taboo within the African American community that when it hits close to home, it is swept under the rug and hidden. It's time to role back the carpet, or for better terms, come out the closet.

It is now 2011 and the notion of the "down low brothas" seems to be out of the question. Most "brothas" who decide to be homosexuals do not mind showing their pride for who they are. The question I would like to know is, how do black women feel about this? We all know that it truly hurts some black women to see a black man with a white woman because some women think there aren't enough of "our men" to go around. But what if "our men" preferred to be with another man? What if "our men" preferred a white man?
Homosexuality is rarely addressed in black communities because people are afraid to acknowledge that it is happening whether they like it or not. Black men who are hyper-masculine find it especially hard to accept because their hyper-masculinity causes them to have homophobia which could possibly lead to them being a brotha on the down low. Some black women would probably rather see a black man with another man than a white woman because they may feel like this is a slap in the face. Because black women were oppressed and depressed for so long by both white and black men as well as white women, it could be helpful to them if they received a little love from their own men. So. If the black man chooses the white woman, the black man, and the white man, what does that leave the black woman with? The kids?