This article published in the New York Times by Jamal Jordan on June 21, 2018 highlights the hardships and differences when it comes to finding love for queer individuals of color, especially when queer individuals of color are not widely publicized on mainstream media. Jordan documents the experiences of a variety of queer individuals of color and […]
Month: July 2018
Blog Post 5
Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog posts! It is amazing that we are already on the fifth blog post, and I feel as though this topic may be one of the most interesting ones yet. For this post, I will be discussing the concept of the “mask” that can be seen in the […]
Beauty Standards for Queer People of Color within the LGBTQ+ Community
In this video posted by Hornet, a company that has a gay social media mobile application, on February 7, 2018, it showcases different queer individuals of color highlighting their own experiences with trying to fit in with the beauty standards that exist within the LGBTQ+ community. Each individual comes from a different racial/ethnic background, but […]
QPOC Parties: What Does It Mean For a Caucasian Individual to Attend One?
https://intomore.com/culture/on-not-taking-up-space-attending-qpoc-parties-as-a-white-gay-man/29ace4eb70c1464f In this article, it was published by Erik Zimmerman on the website “Into,” which is actually a website that is sponsored and co-founded with Grindr, a gay social media dating mobile application, on March 19, 2018. In the article, Zimmerman explains the importance of parties in the city for queer individuals of color, and he […]
Blog Post 4
Hello, and welcome to my fourth blog post! For this post, I am going to be answering a prompt that addresses historical theorists that can be utilized within LGBTQ+ studies. The prompt is: Name one of the critics/theorists we’ve read in these recent lessons (06 through 09) about history and historical research, and briefly identify what […]