Perspective: “As I reflect on what my identity is and will evolve to be, I’m grateful that I’ve carved out my own space in the South.”
June 29, 2022 at 9:33 a.m. EDTEach week in June, we are publishing an essay by an LGBTQ writer that answers this question: Where do you find pride, joy and/or comfort in your own life, particularly amid a rise in anti-LGBTQ legislation? You can read all the essays below.As a Black queer woman, my relationship to the place is complicated. Growing up, I found myself questioning why my parents — my mother from Jamaica and my father from Trinidad — decided to settle down in Pensacola, Fla.
Like so many other Black queer children in the church, I felt alienated whenever I vocally defended gay rights or questioned the homophobia spouted by my peers and church leaders. When conversations about bisexuality or a woman’s place in a heterosexual relationship arose, I felt overcome with guilt. At the time, I didn’t have a true understanding of my own sexuality, but it still felt like my responsibility as an ally to condemn any form of homophobia.
For Black women, in particular, it can be incredibly difficult to find spaces that are emotionally and physically safe to discuss misogynoir and homophobia. My hometown of Pensacola was very White and conservative, so there were only so many spaces that drew a Black crowd, let alone a queer-friendly crowd.
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