queer desire

(Isaac Julien, “Looking for Langston,” 1989)

"I think black people are afraid of their own queer desires. It’s so interesting that homosexuality is so threatening in our communities that we’d rather institute draconian policies that limit all that we are or who we could be out of fear. Homosexaulity and heterosexaulity are recent concepts that don’t effectively convey the diversity of human sexuality, gender or biological sex. We hold tight to the notion that two sexes, produce two genders which lead to two orientations but history and our current world refute this at every turn. but we hold on. We hold to these notions that ultimately imprison us and do nothing to transform the world into what it could be. It’s our desire to hold onto values, that were never ours by the way, that keep us locked in a push/pull that is not transformational or edifying."
(via Tyler Perry x Morehouse x Real Black Men)