We’ve commented occasionally about Charlene Cothran, the newly ex-gay publisher of Venus magazine who alienated her gay African-American readership with rhetoric of blame, self-pity and victimhood borrowed straight from the sorry political playbook of privileged white ex-gays.
Recently, some members of the African-American GLBT leadership have put together a video response produced by Human Rights Campaign and co-sponsored by the National Black Justice Coalition and the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
I am a black American, and I think calling them “African-American Leaders” is aggrandizing them. I would not say they are leaders. I doubt most black Americans have heard about any of these individuals or know who any of these individuals are, including Charlene Cothran. Do most black Americans or even most Americans know about the Human Rights Campaign? I would like to think so, but I doubt it.
You’re right, I corrected the headline. Thanks.