**TRIGGER WARNING** - racist slurs, racial fetishizing. Aside from the loss of anonymity, my biggest frustration with being a gay black man from the U.S. living in South America, Australia, and Southeast Asia — all places where black is a rarity, not just a minority — was that from the moment many people saw me, they dragged out those ancient stereotypes about black men, sizing me up the way I assumed they did all the others who seldom crossed their paths. Everyone wanted to know one thing: “Is it true what they say about black men?” advocate/commentary/2014/03/05/op-ed-how-mythical-big-black-man-killed-romance-abroad
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:07:01 +0000