page_title: LGBT stereotypes
section_title: African Americans
hierarchical_section_title: LGBT stereotypes / Origins and prevalence / Intersections between LGBT, race, and class stereotypes / African Americans
caption_attribution_description: English: A man with a rainbow flag at the Gay Pride parade in New York City, 2008.
context_page_description: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender stereotypes are conventional, formulaic generalizations, opinions, or images based on the sexual orientations or gender identities of LGBT people. Stereotypical perceptions may be acquired through interactions with parents, teachers, peers and mass media, or, more generally, through a lack of firsthand familiarity, resulting in an increased reliance on generalizations.
  Negative stereotypes are often associated with homophobia, lesbophobia, biphobia, or transphobia. Positive stereotypes, or counterstereotypes, also exist.
context_section_description: African American gay men are often characterized as being dominant in relationships both sexually and emotionally. This bias stems from a history of racism and characterization of African American men as brutish in addition to stereotypes which categorize homosexual men as either “top” or “bottom”. These stereotypes can be observed in many forms of media, including pornography which depicts gay African American men as aggressive. African American members of the LGBT community also face discrimination and stereotypes from other African Americans who are historically likely to be religious and stereotype homosexuals as having loose morals. Religious stereotypes surrounding the LGBT community are especially prevalent in certain Black evangelical churches where gay and transsexual members are thought to be "damned to hell".
caption: African Americans represent a particularly marginalized segment of the LGBT community which faces both race and sexuality based prejudice.
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