I felt that I needed to say this because its significance demonstrates a fact not only about the way Americans view gay people, but how Americans even gay Americans view gay minorities. I was extremely hard pressed to come up the group above. In fact, I don't even consider some of them like Carey and Dwight to be celebrities. The reason I was hard pressed is that Black gay men and women do not get the exposure that our white counterparts do. To prove my point, I am now going to come with 15 names of gay white men and women on the spot without using the Internet or anything.
All the guys from Queer Eye 1) Ted 2) Carson and 3) Thom. Then there is the guy who played Dougie Houser..something 4) Patrick. There is 5) Lance Bass from N'Sync and 6) and his boyfriend who was on Surivivor or Amazing Race, one of those shows. 7) There is the guy from Grey's Anatomy. 8) There is Chasity Bono 9) Ellen DeGeneres and her girlfriend 10) Di Rossi or something like that 11) Rosie ODonnell. There is the guy who was in the movie version of Xmen. He played the doctor in the wheelchair. It think his name is 12) Kan, I know his last name or first name begins with a K. 13) There is Dick Cheney's daughter who is about to have a kid. I would consider her a celebrity. 14) There is Graham Norton There is the guy who played 15) Emmett on Queer as Folk. Also the guy who played Justin on 16) Queer as Folk.
There you have it folks, 16 names in 16 minutes! It took me hours to come up with this group of African American men and women and I had to use the Internet! The point here is clear.
White gay people and specifically white gay men are overexposed!
