The Psychology of “Gay Agenda” Conspiracy among Black People

I am not familiar with Dr. T. Hasan Johnson, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in this video, but he has an incredible resume and credentials. I am wary of other Black scholars, or ideologues, that propagate homophobic conspiratorial notions and outlooks like the “Gay Agenda,” because I have to hear similar nonsense from fragile ethnonationalists, Catholic Trads, redpillers, and fitness studs still in current year complaining about the world going to hell, because of soy products and liberal men with their lattes.

There is a concern here with the history and roots of racial sexism against Black males, and the “cumulative assertions of Black male inferiority.” There are some Black men, that are under a terrible impression, that queer and non-heteronormative Black men have life easier, and that the society dominated by White people portray gay Black men as the only acceptable way to be, i.e., the idea that homosexuality is largely being socially-engineered.

T. Hasan Johnson argues, this is not true in the sense they put it. Black men in media are not often depicted like Denzel Washington, or John David Washington (in Tenet) as capable, professional, intelligent and dignified men. Black men are often hypersexualized and sexually objectified, he states, in reference to our penises like “walking phalluses.”

In addition to this, this takes on the form of transphilia and homophilia, when representing hypermasculine Black males in media in an exaggerated manner, then demeaning Black males stereotypically through a flamboyant, hyperfeminine (or gay) image. However, there are those Black men, that interpret this differently from T. Hasan Johnson in the other direction, in a transphobic, biphobic and homophobic way.

The framework he is working from however is inclusive, as whether Black and straight, or gay, no dignity is given to either outside of either hypersexualizing a particular type among Black men, or demeaning Black men, even both. Also, Black males are never granted as much as the women with any other identity except gay or straight.

It is not just Black women, but many women reinforce this rigidity of masculinity, because men perform and act in accordance to what he thinks and believes, or sees and hears what women want, desire and like. If majority women say they’re tired of seeing men in tight and slim fit jeans, because “real men” are supposed to wear boot cut, straight, or baggy and the form of boot cut reminds them of sexy cowboy men, and tight makes them look gay, then men will adjust. This is not even hypothetical, as said, many women think like this and reinforce the boundaries of the culture’s ideas of masculinity.

I also would not entirely agree with any perspective, that argues Black mothers (specifically, ‘single mothers’) are making black boys gay and effeminate. There are many problems with such views, but men with these views, it would go to reason, that they’d believe they ought to be super rigid in their method of parenting. Such fathers are also likely to believe, that they failed as a parent if their child does not turn out to be “straight.” That is not the way to promote the importance of men in any household.

However, this is not what Kevin Samuels and the professor is talking about at all, though you cannot prevent men in every comment section with expressing such opinion. Dr. T. Hasan Johnson helps us understand why are there 40 year old men so immaturely calling other men gay and hyper-observing their mannerisms all the time? This talk also explains how detrimental, toxic and divisive this is for Black men, and how the mistreatment is rooted in slavery.

These are directions these kind of dialogues typically take, when older Black men who could be middle-aged or older who should know better, that engage and hate on other Black men.