A reader came to me about my story about the hip-hop blogger with the gay fixation.
Dear Ms. Shante
I’m glad you didn’t dignify and give the guy glory for the immature thoughts he felt he needed to say. I was blown back a little by your comments, though.
1) The thought of two men in bed is no different than a straight couple in bed.
2) Don’t worry about who’s gay and who isn’t.
There is a big difference between a straight couple and a gay couple sharing a bed together. I guess you don’t read the Bible. It’s a sin.
Not to be funny, but are you gay? I only ask because you said all this as if you were actually offended by it.
No, I don’t really care what another person’s sexual preference is, but I do know the difference. STD’s are making a major pit stop here in the Lou, and from the article I read, a lot of this is coming from undercover brothers. Don’t worry if a man I may be interested in is bi-sexual? I think straight women need to be aware if who they choose to sleep with is sleeping with other men or not.
Continue to speak you mind, sister girl. Don’t chew on me too bad, just speaking my piece!
I ain’t chewing on you. But I do want to rap to you.
You are so right. By all means a person’s sexual orientation is important information if you want to choose that person as your sexual partner. We should know as much as possible about the people we share our beds and lives with. The guy I was shouting down wasn’t guessing at the gayness of our music writers because he wanted to go to bed with them, I don’t think. Well, if he was, he’s in the cold. Dude was gossiping, and thinking he could humiliate some people by trying to insinuate they are gay. It’s that gossip in a hateful way that I hate.
Am I gay? It’s none of your business. Do I have to be gay to defend gay people? No. Silly me, but I’m still holding out for the human family, with everybody given equal respect and everybody watching each other’s backs.
Do I read the Bible? I have studied it very closely. It’s a beautiful but also a very complicated book. It’s also dangerous when you used as a guide for discrimination, as many of our ancestors could tell you. I do not accept it as the final word on how grown people should understand their sexual identity in the year 2005 (almost 2006). But that’s just me. I’m into spirituality, but I am interested in many religions, and I love above all to think of the human being as free. By the way, it’s a sin for two heterosexuals to have sex out of wedlock. And remember, the Bible was rewritten, obviously, by pro-man men.
Happy Thanksgiving again.