Mack Anthony Goethe 3

Koop La Brasi Story Mack Anthony Goethe 3

Victor H: What does your family think of your job? Koopa: Interestingly, they don't know! They know I DID some work. But somehow its been mostly under the radar...for now. Victor H: Have you always been gay? Are you gay? How does being gay inform the black experience, if at all? Why is the black community so vocally homophobic? Are they really that homophobic? Koopa: I'm gay, yes. Not to say that I'm not attracted to females, because I am. I've simply never had sex with one. Yet. It's an occasional desire. I've always had an attraction to males. I wouldn't say I was actually gay until I became an adult, since I had no practice in the gay lifestyle prior to adulthood. It was just a feeling I kept to myself. Being black and gay has had no immediate effect on my life. I just to me - haven't experienced too much negativity in my short years in this lifestyle thus far. For that, I'm grateful. As far as homophobia in the black community - well, black people just happen to have a little more....personality in general, which isn't always a good thing. It's not the general black community that's homophobic, though. It'll usually be in the DL community where guys still aren't comfortable with there sexuality. They'll be the one in the crowd that yells out derogatory terms to a gay passerby while the others just look or may not have even noticed him. It's just like the kindergarten boy who shoots spitballs at the pretty girl across from him. They don't know how to express their attraction, so they settle for less than pleasant ways to do it. At the same time, they think they're securing their masculinity. That's just my opinion.