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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Stop the Presses: Racists Turn Out to Be Homophobes in Atlanta Gay Bar Raid

I wrote recently about Melton A. McLaurin’s analysis (in Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South) of the “patriarchal white-supremacist society” created by Southern males to assure their political and economic dominance. I noted that for McLaurin racism and misogyny dovetail.

In his view, those who have make the rules for patriarchal white-supremacist society keep manipulating the central symbols around which that society revolves, in order to remain on top. And those symbols are projections of the fantasies of those on top—fantasies about dominating strategically targeted others in order to demonstrate one’s strength and unchecked power: McLaurin observes, “Both sexual and racial, the symbols used to manipulate the behavior of whites were projections of white male fantasies” (p. 66).

And if you doubt that it’s still going on—the coalescence of racism and patriarchy—particularly in the South, and that it’s reasserting itself as men used to being on top feel their unchecked power questioned, I suggest you read the latest reports about the recent raid on a gay bar in Atlanta, about which I blogged a few days ago (here).
Posted by William D. Lindsey at 7:12 AM
Labels: homophobia, patriarchy, racism
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I'm a theologian (retired), who is interested in building a better world and standing in solidarity with others who share that goal. I also have a Mastodon account: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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Selected Publications

Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads Region: The Showdown States. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira, 2004. Ed. by William D. Lindsey and Mark Silk.

Shailer Mathews’ Lives of Jesus: The Search for a Theological Foundation for the Social Gospel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Singing in a Strange Land: Praying and Acting with the Poor. Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1991.

“On Being Church in the New Millennium: The Challenge and Gift of Gay Believers,” Theology and Sexuality 16 (2002), 96-104.

“AIDS, Homosexuality, and the Churches in America Today,” Bulletin for Contextual Theology in Southern Africa and Africa 7,1 (2000), 45-48.

“The AIDS Crisis and the Church: A Time to Heal.” In Christian Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender, ed. Adrian Thatcher and Elizabeth Stuart. London: Eerdmans and Gracewing, 1996. Pp. 347-66.

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