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Black same-gender-loving people coming out… I used to preach the “come out” message back in the 1990s. Oh how important I said it was. I was a good black gay boy writing letters, articles, joining organizations doing protests, and of course, came out to my black father, my black stepmother (my own mom died long before I was coming out) and my black sibling. Oh what a time I had! Then came the web site. I spilled my heart out on my personal little black gay boy web site, I spilled so much of my heart that friends and strangers would comment on it, you know, and some of them were just shocked to encounter a black gay man sharing so much. Now I mean it wasn’t like I was revealing any family skeletons or anything. I was just saying what I thought, talking about thinks I had feelings on. But I guess it was so foreign.

I was getting quite lonely too because the “Downlow” was blowing up and all… I mean anyone who wanted to be anyone, or meet anyone had to do it all on the downlow. It was like a brick wall to me and my coming out. Then suddenly all these website started coming out with the naked black men and it was all in the “downlow”. As the nakedness and sex parties increased, the clothes, the “coming out”, and even the unstable organization decreased. I wasn’t sure if I’d ever live to see the day that a prominent out black gay figure, and not just that, but a prominent out black gay MALE figure speaking on the need for SGL blacks to come out. But Keith Boykin has said it, and wow, I made it! I’ve truly lived to see the day! Behind him is an even bigger amazing thing, a black SGL organization admonishing us to come out.

Earning The Right to Complain
By Keith Boykin
http://www.keithboykin.com/
October 18, 2005 12:02 PM

This month, the National Black Justice Coalition launches a year-long campaign to get 100,000 black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people to come out. It’s about time. More