Week 7

Down Low
In this article I found it disturbing that some men who choose to have sex with other men on the down low, then turn around and have unsafe sex with women. I wonder if this has anything to do with the high rates of HIV in African American women, whether you are African American, White and or Brown, no one should put the health of someone else in danger do to selfishness. On the other hand I do understand how keeping being gay on the down low because of all the other oppressions that have complicated the lives of African American, having to cope with past oppressions do to no fault of their own and having to deal with what oppressors are placing upon African American males in today's society. Until everyone is fully educated on the African American culture and its people and being educated on HIV, their will be people out there will always assume the worst when it comes to African Americans, and Gay African Americans. Hoping that one day all communities will receive African American gay men and women with open arms and not use religion to condemn a human being.
Homosexuality and the African American Church
I find that the church as come a long way, personally in my church congregation we have a few openly gay men and they are treated with respect by others. Because the article discusses the fact that the church is the oldest institutions in the African American community it is important that we support our gay African American men and women. We need to accept the fact that we are all God's children and not use the bible to make judgements against other human beings. I feel that most churches do some teaching on homosexuality being a sin and so the African American church is no different than any other church. Education should be the topic when it comes to safe sex, who and when HIV can be contracted and that the disease does not choose people by the color of their skin.