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Far from flowing rainbow flags, the sound of Lady Gaga and, quite honestly, white people, stands a nightclub just outside of Wicker Park in Chicago, Illinois, by the name of The Prop House.

The line to get in usually stretches down the block, and unlike many of the clubs in Boystown and Andersonville, this one plays hip-hop and caters to men who may or may not openly identify as gay, but without question are black and proud.

And a good number of them are tired of hearing how the gay community is disappointed in President Obama, because they are not.

In recent weeks, one would have thought the nation’s first black president was also the nation’s biggest homophobe. Everyone from Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black and radio personality Rachel Maddow to Joe Solmonese, the president of Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest gay advocacy group, seem to be blasting Obama for everything from “don’t ask don’t tell” to Adam Lambert not winning American Idol.

In their minds, Obama is not moving fast enough on behalf of the GLBT community. The outcry is not completely without merit — the Justice Department’s unnerving brief on the Defense of Marriage Act immediately comes to mind. I was upset by some of the statements, but not surprised. (After the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, President Ronald Reagan’s initial handling of AIDS and, more recently, Katrina, there is little that surprises me when it comes to the government and the treatment of its people.)

Still, rarely has criticism regarding Obama and the GLBT community come from the kind of person you would find standing in line at a spot like The Prop House, and there’s a reason for that.

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Tags: Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homosexuality, Obama
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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alpha111906/ alpha111906

    8 seconds people…i am on wireless and dialup…and you have the nerve to put an incomplete story with a bunch of bs feeds/wordpress…then it didn’t even get to the point until i clicked the link to “read more”…you have alot to learn about how to get people to read/respond to ya bullcrap newsone/blackplanet…putting a bullcrap headline isn’t going to do it…8 seconds to get to the point

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    what the F*CK! gay is NOT the new black, simply because that sh*t does NOT apply to ME….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/WestsideCartelAtl85/ WestsideCartelAtl85

    Race cannnot be hidden at all. I hate when these homos try to compare being Black to being gay. Homosexuality is a sin, while being Black isn’t a sin at all. The morals in this country are going downhill every second.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Trese11/ Trese11

    wat da fuk

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Big--Blu/ Big–Blu

    man who be writting these stupid articles

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dynomite10/ dynomite10

    No gay is not the new black. Gay is the new gay. I think it’s disrespectful for anyone to compare their struggle to anyone else. If you were white and gay you could go to any restaurant you want, you didn’t have to sit on the back of the buss, you were allowed to own property, you were allowed to read, etc… If you were gay and black you had a problem. Not because you were gay but because you are back.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kennyboo3131/ kennyboo3131

    Being gay is a choice,Being black struggling though the days of Jim crow,sitting in the back of the bus,Taking secondary work just so that your family can sleep in back of there slave masters house……..That is being BLACK.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jushin-thunder-liger/ jushin-thunder-liger

    If anyone reads the Bible, he/she will discover in Leviticus 18:20-22 that God speaks about such abominations: “Thous shalt not lie with mankind as wqith womankind: for it is an abomination against the Lord.” GLBT “kills me” be committing blaspheme against God by claiming God made a person GLBT. That is to say God is sin. The Bible tells us that God has no sin in him and was not of sin. Why would God create sin against himself. GLBT ARE CHOICES PEOPLE MAKE FOR THEMSELVES; IT’S NOT A DISEASE, BUT IT LIFESTLES BRING ABOUT DISEASES.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mz_5w33tn355/ Mz_5w33tn355

    Pardon me for cussin above u n u talkin bout God n da Biblel, BUT…WHO DA F**K said dat s**t? wut makes dem think dat gay is da new f**kin black? Who da f**k thought of dis s**t. Black folk/African Americans/Niggas…wuteva u wanna call us..are not known for anythin dat his article jus muthaf**kin said. I am furious dat a f**kin article title would b “is gay da new black”. Are STD and AIDS da new white? Are diseases the new korean?…which type of s**t is dat yo…smh whoeva wrote the title even doesnt need to write any longer. Thank u.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kountry_Mayne/ Kountry_Mayne

    ummm ok….. but being bi or gay seems to be a trend… and half of you niggas are in style.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com//

    Gay means happy. Aint shyt happy about no god damn punk

    This country was stolen by phagots. all The god damn punks of rome I mean popes of rome was phagots. King james was a phagot azz punk

    All white people have a natural inclination, they are all phagots

    Blacks are phags cuz they think and wanna b white

    Y da hell yall think mike jackson was screwing lil boys, that was the WHITE thing to do after becoming white

    But silly negropeans will scream that “gay” is the new black just to be loved and kissed and banged by some damn white bytch

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AllBizSumPlay_1/ AllBizSumPlay_1

    BLASPHEMY !!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/WindChimes/ WindChimes

    Gay is NOT the new Black. Gay rights have nothing to do with racism, the African Holocaust, discrimination, skin tone and hair issues, the Black elite nor the Black poor. Anyone can be gay, and no one has to know that you are gay. You can’t hide being Black. I’m deeply disturbed that gays like Rachel Maddow are criticizing President Obama about gay rights as if it’s as important as health care and jobs for a nation of people. Gay is about sexual orientation and what they want is MONEY and benefits for their alternative lifestyle. What about Blacks who are gay? Are they now Black Blacks. Puhlease. Blacks are humans and can also be gay. Any person can be gay white, black, Asian and so on, but they are in no way to be compared to Blacks nor our struggle to be what and who we are today in America.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sharisluv/ sharisluv

    LOL the phrase the new black has nothing to do with race. This article is not comparing being gay to being black. When someone says it’s the new black they mean it’s what’s in style at the moment. Normally black is a staple in most people’s wardrobe. The phrase is often used in context with fashion but has recently spread to just mean what’s popular at the moment.

    I often wonder why do people speak of things they know nothing of. Whether or not a person is born gay or not has no definite answer, therefore it shouldn’t be argued since no facts can truly back it up.

    Oh please don’t get started with the bible. The book Leviticus also justifies the rape, murder and pillaging of neighbouring villages if they fail to properly observe sabbaths and speaks of stoning to death disobedient children or selling daughters into slavery. If you’d like I’ll pull the scripture for you.

    People it’s 2009 Again, western civilization (yes that includes you) has evolved and with most people, our view of culture has evolved and widened. And NOT everyone wishes to live by the laws set by the religious standards of nomads who lived at least three thousand years ago.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/brandip77/ brandip77

    I live in DC, and just by walking down the street, it seems like gay is in. So many men in DC are gay-black and white.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jTigga/ jTigga

    There are no names with the post so I will reference the times in which they were posted.
    The post at 9:02 is accurate in that the phrase “Gay is the New Black” was used to reference gay rights today to Black rights yesterday. The post at 9:06, while it sounds good it is not the truth and an assumption of someone that doesnt want to see the truth.
    I hate to hear the phrase because it undermines the struggles that all black people went through. It minimalizes all the shortcomings, opression and hate that existed. What gays are dealing with today pales in comparison to what blacks dealt with for Years/decades.
    I just think they should come at this from a different angle as opposed to riding the coat tails of a people still fighting for equality today.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Butterfly_Bowles/ Butterfly_Bowles

    WTF IS THE WORLD COMING TOO…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/john_jetter/ john_jetter

    Only white gays are critizing President Obama I know multitudes of gays in California and we just don’t see eye to eye on the same issues take it from me I am Black and proud and would do nothing to discredit my race or fellow man/ woman and children. Beiieve me gays voted against the gay marriage deal If it comes to my state I will vote against it here as well

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/IamIntriguing/ IamIntriguing

    SURVEY SAYS “FUC TO THE NO, GAY IS NOT THE NEW BLACK!”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Benzly/ Benzly

    PEOPLE WHY DO U EVEN WASTE TIME AND COMMENT ON THIS CANT U SEE WHAT THE MEDIA JUST WANTS SOME REACTION THATS ALLLLLLL THE LIVE FOR AND THEN THEY CAN CONTROL UR MIND …. DAMMNN IM TIRED OF THIS .. I TAKING DOWN MY PAGE ON BLACKPLANET ..THIS IS F**KRY

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lsmith1981/ lsmith1981

    Waste of Time….Only White people and black people who is lost into TV would be interested….!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    PHUCC THAT… I WILL ALWAYS BE BLACK BUT NEVER GAY!

    GAY ISNT THE NEW ANYTHING, NOT EVEN GAY. FOR CENTURIES PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INTO WHAT”S CONSIDERED TABOO.

    DONT MAKE IT A BLACK THING NOW. LOL.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigapplefashions/ bigapplefashions

    Why do was seem to let everyone belittle who we are? This is the dumbest thing i’ve heard from BP…I told you the white folks run this ship.It’s modern day slavery with us on board.But what other channels do we have?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigapplefashions/ bigapplefashions

    Why do we as blacks seem to let everyone belittle who we are? This is the dumbest thing i’ve heard from BP…I told you the white folks run this ship.It’s modern day slavery with us on board.But what other channels do we have?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shango24/ shango24

    homosexality started in greece and threw poor sellout afrakan men collaberating with europeans

    the second slave trade of or people was born

    and man afrakan males were raped on the slave ships and plantations and thus it created monsters not even throwing in the sex farms these people usto to have where pedohiles were taught to get young scared crying 15 year old girls pregnet.

    all homosexuals who are afrakan jst lke in afraka and the islands shouldt not be shot but chopped up alive with knifes machety’s or what ever sharp objects u can find

    they shold be set on fire and the kids shold be brought to look at the sickness in the form of smoke leave the body.

    and the kids and women will just applaud

    homosexals will quickly be erased if any afrakans in afrakan countrys like me come to power

    we will wipe every last homosexual woman child and man off the planet.

    soon this will come to pass

    amerikkka is dying

    i have no desire to live out my later years it was a good ride amerikkka but afraka is my true home i will go there and get invovled in goverment and i will make sure those who bring homosexuals to jails for thepolice will be rewarded.

    south afraka they killed a homosexual woman who was a world famous soccer player

    they raped her then killed her

    thank those brave brothers

    homosexuality in any form is wrong but it is beyond wrong if it is a fellow afrakan!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shango24/ shango24

    Anonymous

    you are correct king james of the bible was a phaggot

    lol and these negropeans love that shet

    but the good news is brothers lke myself make being afrakan look cool and feel cool along with my afrakan morales and kids where i live copy me

    so im doing my part to combat these phaggots

    lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/easthaven_turk04/ easthaven_turk04

    Before i even read this article, for me to see this title I had to speak my peace. But when saying how the New Black America is gay is hilarious but is what is being shown on television, and who outta all poeple watch tv are the ones that grow in this world, the ones younger then us. I tired of the contreversy we go thru, and in the words of eminem on another level with diversity ” all I see in magazines is sissies smiling, whatever happen to a good old fashion ass whipping or being violent”. Now tell me what you see through TV and notice the major change its making on the enviroment out here.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Teneer/ Teneer

    As a christian woman and let me emphasize(woman) which wo stands for the womb that we have to carry children and the man part because thats where god decided the beings side or rib we should be pulled from. The one thing I hate about people and I mean people who pick up the bible when they are trying to prove a point or turn gods words every which way.Its says in the bible “lean not unto your own understanding” Now it dosent matter what people(Society)say or show you on the TV Homosexuality is wrong. And if it were not wrong than a man should be able to reproduce and carry a child just like a women and vis versa for lesbians no sperm no kids.Now it also says in the Bible he with out sin maycast the first stone so having sex before marriage is wrong to,but I to have sins so I will not judge the life style people choose to lead thats not my job,but the man up stairs.But for those people who have not picked a bible up since sunday school dont try to justify something that goes against not only nature but the ALPHA AND OMEGA. GOD BLESS

    P.S.While looking for bits and pieces of the truth about any type of sexuality in the bible does anyone remember why the Ark was built?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com//

    Shango what up brotha this maatra.

    When we look at the bible in the beggin god created man and these two men gave birth to woman with a bone of man

    This shyt aint natural that’s a phagot birth two men aint never created life. Look at ya belly don’t u all got navals. We aint missing a bone. If dats the case woman is suppose to have one rib morw than man

    God boned adam and adam after nine months shyted eve out. Thus the first phagots was born and yall wonder why god cursed adam cus he had eyes for that long snake that eve was riddin. Adam wanted sum of that snake

    That’s why god made adam cover his self cuz wasn’t noone lookin at adam nakedness but god

    The black woman is god and she gives birth to gods and goddessess and not phagots

  • http://www.blackplanet.com//

    And I kmow its a lil off subject bit how can man/woman be made of dirt when we are 80 percent water

    God need to brush up on his biology

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The_Donlamb/ The_Donlamb

    Didn’t they get the message with the spread of disease. it’s not natural!when the media focuses on a micro section in the black community it somehow becomes synonymous with the entire community. Homosexuality is contagious by by association. although there are those who suffer from hormone deficiences, there is no evidence that people are born gay.therefore, there is no sympathy warranted for a chosen lifestyle which increases the risk for sexually transmitted dseases. Even moreso, Homosexuality is more of a cultural fraternity of european origin,where people of like minds congragate and are open to experienment in devious sexual behavior, as a result,weak spirited black men fall subject to sexual perversion and manipulation. It would be interesting to know the statistics on the approximate number of early african americans brought here in chains and were gay by association. I would venture to say very few or non at all. sexual deviance or perversion is not synonymous with the black household, and is considered a perversion of sexuality,and is in no way shape or form is the cause of promoting homosexuality the equivilant to the civil rights struggle in the black community for the simple reason that one is a chosen lifestyle, and the other is a gift from God.so stop this perversion before the pleague grips your soul. it’s not cute nor is it funny, it’s sickness, seek help!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DARKHEARTPHENIX/ DARKHEARTPHENIX

    This article’s title is misleading,but to answer the question GAY is NOT the new BLACK.

    The issues are completely different.White gays want to high jack and throw in all civil rights together.It can’t work like that and shouldn’t.Yes there are thing that GAY PEOPLE as a whole goes threw but none compare to what BLACK PEOPLE have and do go threw.

    Being BLACK AND GAY myself my issues are doubled and are completely different from a WHITE GAY PERSON.WHITE GAYS basically do not have any REAL issues concerning being gay,other than trying to get marriage legalized there’s nothing WHITE GAYS have to complain about.

    BLACK GAY have more issues and things that we go threw. A couple of issues faced by BLACK GAYS are, OUTRAGEOUS HOMOPHOBIA in the BLACK COMMUNITY,HOUSING AND HEALTH.

    The GAY ISSUES are different all our issues are not the same and don’t effect and concern all gays the same way.

    And to address all the people commenting and referring to the bible, There are a lot of sinful things I’m sure that you have done.

    WHO AMONG YOU CAN CAST A STONE THAT YOU YOURSELVES SHOULDN’T BE HIT WITH.

    You can’t be SELF RIGHTEOUS when you’ve broken most if not all of the laws of the bible.

    Only you know what you have done. Don’t try and hold someone that is gay up as a sinner when you your self is a sinner in the laws of the bible.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/samsthewon/ samsthewon

    Black and gay,White and gay…I don’t care people are people.I’m hetero-sexual,but i’m not homo-phobic,or what ever.As a black man i’d be the last to discriminate against someone!I was on the Internet,one day and i stumbled across this adult site…”DirtySouthShemales.com”…and I’ll admit i was like DAMN! In other word’s they were not ugly.You wouldn’t have known,except for the site’s name that they were “Transgendered”…So next time you’re out in public and go to holla’ at a hott chic,You’ll never know now a day’s!So don’t be no homophobe.What will you do…punch yourself out!Have pride in yourself whom ever you are.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dark-Lovely1/ Dark-Lovely1

    I’m a ccol strait dude, with plenty of gay friends. Tyra Banks had this on her show a while back , an I’m irate about this. YOU CANT SEE WHO’S GAY. BUT YOU CAN SEE WHO’S BLACK. POINT BLANK. WHAY NOT ” IS GAY THE NEW TERRORIST” or any thing else. Being black is like nothing ever imagined unless your one of them.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com//

    U phagots c** on here talking about u straight and sum talking about watching phagot sites u punks are phagots and need to be burnd

    After all the phag means a bundle of sticks that the cracka use to use to keep the fire burning when they was burning they women accused of being witches. When the ran out of phags they rounded up the local sissy men and threw them in the fire.

    That’s y the french call cigarets phags

    Quit c**n on here tryn to fool the people to think bein a punk is okay. Ya nasty punks

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/FeetandToes1/ FeetandToes1

    Is gay the new black?Hell no.Now who came up wit that bulls**t.I ‘m blacker than a mother and far from that gay s**t.However i can understand why someone would feel that way.You got somany niggas out here today acting hard and thugged out and out here booty chasin.Fag asses.I don’t know whats wrong with brothers today acting like women ain’t enough when thats all you need.But some of yall cissy asses would rather have a mans shoulder to cry on than a woman.But the new gay ain’t black.And you fag ass niggas stop actin and dressing like b***hes and be what you were born to be a man.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ejizzy/ ejizzy

    No gay isn’t the new black, gay is, well just plain ol’ gay, nothing else. A bit of history though, the first homosexuals in history weren’t black.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/geedupfromthefeetup/ geedupfromthefeetup

    The definition of gay is, the opposite of me. A man that loves nothing but women, a woman that loves nothing but men, a person that loves to one day bare a child. I mean I can go all day but plain and simple, gay people, be proud of who you are, but don’t except for everyone to except it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/J-S-S/ J-S-S

    I thought this article was well written and researched. White gays have the nerve to say they have had it worst and loner then blacks. What B.S. They stupity and condencension is unbelieveable.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/supersoftball/ supersoftball

    No! Gay is just being gay!!!!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slit_lcka005/ slit_lcka005

    It’s insulting to be have my blackness, compared to f****t issues. No matter what they tell you you’re born black, or white, or asian, not fricking gay!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TMAC_35000/ TMAC_35000

    Wow, shame on you for even asking such a stupid question.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trisha_369/ trisha_369

    ALL I CAN SAY IS I LOVE DICK,P***S,HOWEVER YOU WANT TO PUT IT AND FROM BIRTH TO MAN HOOD-BECAUSE IM 100% A REAL WOMAN. AND OUT OF RESPECT FOR OTHERS I DO NOT THROW STONES AT NOBODY IN WHO THEY RATHER HAVE SEX,WITH AS LONG AS THEY DON’T COME OFF ON ME-IN THAT WAY,IM COOL WITH THEM. AS TO SAY IS GAY THE NEW BLACK…WHOEVER WROTE THIS BULLSH*T SLAP YOURSELF. SOME BLACK PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HAPPY ALL THERE LIFE-BECAUSE THATS WHAT THE WORD GAY MEAN…YOU A$$HOLE. DO SOME BLACK MEN LOVE TO TAKE IT UP THE A$$,DEEP THROAT SOME SH*T? YES THEY DO AND ITS THERE RIGHT TO FU*K WHOEVER THEY WANT AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT CROSS THE LINE,WITH SOMEONE WHO DON’T. SAME THING GO FOR WOMEN-AS LONG AS SHE KEEP IT REAL AND NOT COME AT ME-IN A DISREPECTFUL WAY…IM NOT GOING TO TURN AND RUN-AS IF A SH*T LOAD OF WILD ANIMAL IS COMING AFTER ME. ITS REALLY ALL ABOUT RESPECT TO EACHOTHER NOT OF WHO YOUR SEX PARTNER IS…SH*T YOU GOT MEN WHO RATHER HAVE ANOTHER MAN EVERYWHERE AND YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW IT UNLESS THEY LET IT BE KNOW-JUST LIKE WOMEN. IF YOU WAS DYING AND SO HAPPEN THE DOCTOR LIKE THE SAME SEX-IS YOU GOING TO DIE OR LET HIM DO HIS JOB? IF YOU GOT CHAGED WITH A CRIME YOU DID NOT DO AND THE LAWYER LIKED THE SAME SEX AND SHE COULD GET YOU OFF-WOULD YOU SAY LET THEM HANG ME? OR IF A JUDGE SET YOU FREE-WOULD YOU TURN TO HIM(HER)AND SAY NO KEEP ME,LOCKED UP? IF YOU KNOW FOR SURE WHAT ROCKS YOUR BOAT AND YOU HAVE NO QUESTION ABOUT YOUR SEX LIFE…THEN KEEP DOING YOU AND NOT THROW STONES AT THE ONES WHO SO HAPPEN TO LIKE THE SAME SEX. IM NOT SAYING YOU GOT TO LIKE THEM-IM JUST SAYING GIVE THEM THE SAME RESPECT YOU WOULD WANT FROM ANOTHER PERSON. THIS IS JUST HOW I SEE IT AND ONLY MY OPINION.

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