The Color of Sex: Queer People of Color on Film

[roughsatori]

by Karl Bruce Knapper from the website blacklightonline.com


Despite the quantum leap that Queer filmmaking has taken over the last decade, there are still some subjects which have proven difficult, if not impossible, for Queer filmmakers to address adequately. Chief among these is the complicated and taboo-laden convergence of race and sexuality in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender communities.


To be either a person of color or Queer in this society forces one to exist (and participate) in a societal belief/value system that at best considers one slightly less than standard or normal, and more usually quite inferior or flawed. To be both, burdens one with a whole lot of societal baggage that's not easy to carry. There's no way to really evade this burden. Escape from it is impossible. Naivete won't help, though it can make the burden easier to manage. After all, ignorance can be bliss. snip//

http://www.blacklightonline.com/colorofsex.html

[mb_nyc]

1. Books on related subjects

Thanks for that link.

In case you haven't read them already, these books might be of interest, too:

Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture, by Siobhan B. Somerville

The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy, by Mason Stokes

Both are published by Duke University Press:
http://www.dukeupress.edu/books/S_bk_authors.shtml

[roughsatori]

2. Thanks mb_nyc

I'll check them out now. Hey, welcome to DU. If you hadn't posted my thread looks like it would have sunk quickly.

[mb_nyc]

4. Nice to meetcha, roughsatori

and I hope you enjoy the books.

I almost missed your original post, myself. This forum moves so quickly ...

[alaine]

3. kick!