The Face of New York Gay Marriage is Latino
2 Jun 2009The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) launched a website to push for the New York State Senate to pass a gay marriage bill before the legistlative terms ends. The focus of the site is featuring gay couples in New York as legitimate families that should have the right to get married. Pero the majority of the couples featured are white couples and males.
An exception to this is the couple featured in Blabbeando , who get an English video and a Spanish video about their coupledom (and they live in Queens)
See the English video after the jump
I appreciate the inclusion of Latino couples, however the face of gay marriage and the gay community in general continues to be painted as white and middle class. You would think that with the push coming from the religious right, especially Latinos like Ruben Diaz Sr., there would more of an effort to represent diversity.
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2 Responses to The Face of New York Gay Marriage is Latino
Carlos in DC
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Good point VIVIR LATINO, you are right because sometimes we non-white gay people feel that the whole marriage equality campaign is leaving an image that this is only about white gay people.
But these videos show white people also, the only difference is that they speak Spanish.
Good trying though.
Jennifer Woodard Maderazo
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:10 pm
With all due respect, what makes these people “white” according to you? I don’t know them, but I doubt that any of them identify as white, though it would be a safer bet to ask them rather than speculating.
I myself find it interesting that you seem to pre-judge people’s cultural identity and/or politics based on how much melanin is in their skin or their names or surnames. The complex history of Latin America (and the U.S.A. and the immigrant experience) tells us that is a mistake. Just because someone isn’t full on indigenous doesn’t mean they identify as white or aren’t part of the struggle. Think about it.