{"id":45873,"date":"2016-10-10T18:25:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T22:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/black-bisexual-and-invisible-a-cry-for-acceptance-and-an-end-to-racism-in-the-lgbtq-community\/"},"modified":"2016-10-10T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T22:25:46","slug":"black-bisexual-and-invisible-a-cry-for-acceptance-and-an-end-to-racism-in-the-lgbtq-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/black-bisexual-and-invisible-a-cry-for-acceptance-and-an-end-to-racism-in-the-lgbtq-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Black, Bisexual, And Invisible: A Cry For Acceptance And An End To Racism In The LGBTQ Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Black, Bisexual, And Invisible: A Cry For Acceptance And An End To Racism In The LGBTQ Community<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/10\/10161702\/2-670x377.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/10\/10161702\/2-670x377.jpg 670w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/10\/10161702\/2-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/10\/10161702\/2.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have been out as <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> for three years,&rdquo; blogger Travonte Harris writes in a new&nbsp;op-ed published by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thecurrent-online.com\/opinions\/my-struggle-perceived-racism-in-gay-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Current.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>&ldquo;A downside to being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> is the fact that no <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girl<\/a> will date me because I&rsquo;m openly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As if it wasn&rsquo;t enough,&rdquo; he adds, &ldquo;now I have to deal with racism from my own&nbsp;people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/michael-sam-sees-more-racism-in-gay-community-than-homophobia-in-black-community-20160330\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Sam Sees More Racism In Gay Community Than Homophobia In Black Community<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harris says it all started&nbsp;shortly after he&nbsp;joined Grindr.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Before I came out, I never had a problem with racism,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I could get black <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girls<\/a>, white <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girls<\/a>, some mixed <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girls<\/a>. But in dealing with trying to go after my dream <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guy<\/a>, I was met with opposition.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He continues: &ldquo;I saw a lot of posts on the dating apps like &lsquo;Anyone but black,&rsquo; &lsquo;No blacks allowed,&rsquo; and I had to stop myself and think, &lsquo;Am I in the 60s or is this reality?&rsquo; &hellip; I questioned, &lsquo;Am I unattractive? Am I not good enough for them?&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He quickly learned that, no, he wasn&rsquo;t living in the &rsquo;60s, this was reality, and that many <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> didn&rsquo;t want to date him simply because of the color of his skin.<\/p>\n<p>Harris says he quickly grew frustrated by this, and eventually took to social media to voice&nbsp;his outrage.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I started saying really offensive stuff on Facebook,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I was starting to hate the LGBT community and hate myself for being a part of it.&nbsp;I found myself being just as closed-minded as the people I hated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/young-gay-black-man-explores-intersectionality-racism-homophobia-20160801\" target=\"_blank\">Young Gay Black Man Explores The Intersectionality Of Racism And Homophobia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He continues: &ldquo;But after much backlash from friends and family, I realized that hating them would solve nothing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris says he&rsquo;s now focused on opening people&rsquo;s minds to the racism that exists within the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Recently I went into a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> club and there were a lot of people&mdash;mostly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couples<\/a>,&rdquo; he writes. &ldquo;The few single people who were there were out of my league. But I walked up to a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guy<\/a>, and his friend, a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girl<\/a> who said, &lsquo;What do you want?&rsquo; in the rudest voice possible, like she was superior to me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All I wanted was a dance,&rdquo; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> friends who are black and they only date black people because it has been an issue trying to date a white <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guy<\/a>,&rdquo; he continues. &ldquo;I hope that this article helps people become more aware of their racism.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He conludes: &ldquo;This should not be a world where people kill themselves because they are lonely or because their own LGBT social group will not accept them. I hope that reading this article causes readers to consider how their actions might affect other people, whether intentional or not.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/many-white-guys-grindr-many-racist-blogger-laments-20161001\" target=\"_blank\">Too Many White Guys On Grindr &amp; Too Many Are Racist, Blogger Laments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=ZgvDNjJelS0:mRFRZsOLJIo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=ZgvDNjJelS0:mRFRZsOLJIo:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a 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