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Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« on: October 21, 2009, 11:12:06 AM »
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October is Black History Month in Britain – a wonderful celebration of the huge, important and valuable contribution that black people have made to humanity and to popular culture.

It is also worth celebrating that many leading black icons have been lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), most notably the US black liberation hero Malcolm X. Other prominent black LGBTs include jazz singer Billie Holiday, author and civil rights activist James Baldwin, soul singer-songwriter Luther Vandross, blues singer Bessie Smith, poet and short story writer Langston Hughes, singer Johnny Mathis, novelist Alice Walker, civil rights activist and organiser of the 1963 March on Washington Bayard Rustin, blues singer Ma Rainey, dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey, actress, singer and dancer Josephine Baker, Olympic diving gold medallist Greg Louganis, singer and songwriter Little Richard, political activist and philosopher Angela Davis, singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman and drag performer and singer RuPaul. ...  A good example of this neglect is the denialism surrounding the bisexuality of one of the greatest modern black liberation heroes: Malcolm X. The lack of recognition is perhaps not surprising, given that some of his family and many black activists have made strenuous efforts to deny his same-sex relationships and suppress recognition of the full spectrum of his sexuality.

Why the cover-up? So what if Malcolm X was bisexual? Does this diminish his reputation and achievements? Of course not. Whether he was gay, straight or bisexual should not matter. His stature remains, regardless of his sexual orientation. Yet many of the people who revere him seem reluctant to accept that their hero, and mine, was bisexual. ...
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2009, 11:14:23 AM »
Wait !!  Greg Louganis was black? 
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2009, 11:51:30 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on October 21, 2009, 11:14:23 AM
Wait !!  Greg Louganis was black? 

LOL, THAT'S what I was wondering!!!
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2009, 11:52:46 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on October 21, 2009, 11:14:23 AM
Wait !!  Greg Louganis was black? 
...as black as the current POTUS. :lmao:
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2009, 12:01:50 PM »
I was wondering the same thing, I mean, I KNEW he was Gay.  I just thought he was Greek?  And Tan?
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2009, 12:08:13 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on October 21, 2009, 12:01:50 PM
I was wondering the same thing, I mean, I KNEW he was Gay.  I just thought he was Greek?  And Tan?
Louganis or Oooooobama?
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2009, 12:11:08 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on October 21, 2009, 12:08:13 PM
Louganis or Oooooobama?


Orly Taitz is sending half-baked legal motions to every judge she can get in to see demanding that the ghey love tryst pics of Zero and Greggie be released along with the "real" birth certificate.
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2009, 12:56:22 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on October 21, 2009, 11:14:23 AM
Wait !!  Greg Louganis was black? 

According to Wikipedia (Admittedly, not the most reputable source), no.  He was Samoan and Swedish, and adopted by a Greek-American family
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2009, 01:09:15 PM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on October 21, 2009, 12:56:22 PM
According to Wikipedia (Admittedly, not the most reputable source), no.  He was Samoan and Swedish, and adopted by a Greek-American family

I thought he was Samoan.  Some "journalist" needs to fact check a bit.
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2009, 01:12:21 PM »
I know a few Samoans.  They don't like being mistaken for being Black.  But they REALLY don't like being mistaken for being Hispanic, which happens quite frequently.   
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2009, 01:29:59 PM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on October 21, 2009, 12:56:22 PM
According to Wikipedia (Admittedly, not the most reputable source), no.  He was Samoan and Swedish, and adopted by a Greek-American family


I remember hearing he was adopted by a Greek-American family, but I don't ever remember hearing he was part/all black.

If he was....the press would have been all over the fact that he was a "black" Olympic diver....
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2009, 01:49:41 PM »
Quote from: debk on October 21, 2009, 01:29:59 PM

I remember hearing he was adopted by a Greek-American family, but I don't ever remember hearing he was part/all black.

If he was....the press would have been all over the fact that he was a "black" Olympic diver....

Yeah, diving just ain't a sport that features a lot of blacks....

I can't even think of one, unless it's the team from Jamaica or some such.
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2009, 02:14:41 PM »
Maybe he undertook the same treatments as Michael Jackson. :-)
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2009, 02:19:58 PM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on October 21, 2009, 12:56:22 PM
According to Wikipedia (Admittedly, not the most reputable source), no.  He was Samoan and Swedish, and adopted by a Greek-American family

I guess Samoan in the new black :rotf:

I always thought Samoans would be closer to either Native Americans or Asians, but I guess gay black history peeps are desperate for any famous affiliation. ON that note, how many of those names from the distant past were actually 'proud' of being either bisexual or gay? For how many were sexual indiscretions are part of drug or alcohol use?


As an aside, Rupaul is gay...now there's a shocker! :rotf:
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2009, 02:43:23 PM »
Little Richard ghey?    I'm shocked, shocked I say.

Maybe the mascara gave him away?


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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2009, 03:02:33 PM »
Sigh.  There's that "bisexual" thing again.  :whatever:

Seems to me, once you've decided to smoke a pole and you're featuring one, that makes you ghey. Doesn't matter whether you like life down at the Y or not.
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2009, 03:04:52 PM »
Maybe I should have re-titled the thread 'Greg Louganis was black, get over it'.  :-)
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2009, 03:18:52 PM »
Poor Greg. 
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #18 on: October 21, 2009, 09:08:17 PM »
Malcolm was a muslim..............and we all know what they do at certain times of the year in favor of their religion
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2009, 09:18:31 PM »
Quote from: Crazy Horse on October 21, 2009, 09:08:17 PM
Malcolm was a muslim..............and we all know what they do at certain times of the year in favor of their religion

Blow shit up?
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« Reply #20 on: October 21, 2009, 09:24:05 PM »
Hasn't it been going on for years I seem to recall a show a few years ago where they were talking about men on the down low.
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #21 on: October 22, 2009, 08:07:57 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on October 21, 2009, 03:02:33 PM
Sigh.  There's that "bisexual" thing again.  :whatever:

Seems to me, once you've decided to smoke a pole and you're featuring one, that makes you ghey. Doesn't matter whether you like life down at the Y or not.

Ah yes, the old maxim, "Make love to 1000 women, nobody cares, but suck one dick and you're a faggot for life."
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2009, 09:37:38 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on October 22, 2009, 08:07:57 AM
Ah yes, the old maxim, "Make love to 1000 women, nobody cares, but suck one dick and you're a faggot for life."

Yep, that's it exactly.
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #23 on: October 22, 2009, 09:50:03 AM »
Guys who do long stretches in the joint sometimes become what they call "gay for the stay" :-) Sorry if you can have another mans wang in your mouth and he doesn't have a gun to your head. You are a Broadway loving friend of dorothy! :-)
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Re: Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
« Reply #24 on: October 22, 2009, 09:54:50 AM »
Quote from: Toastedturningtidelegs on October 22, 2009, 09:50:03 AM
Guys who do long stretches in the joint sometimes become what they call "gay for the stay" :-) Sorry if you can have another mans wang in your mouth and he doesn't have a gun to your head. You are a Broadway loving friend of dorothy! :-)

Well, maybe the answer for the guy who's gone "gay for the stay" should not have broken the law for starters. Kinda hard to have Bubba insist on you being his boyfriend when you and Bubba ain't cellmates to begin with.
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