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Center on Halsted Marks 10 Years VOL 32, NO. 36 MAY 24, 2017 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Businessman and philanthropist Fred Eychaner was honored with the Center on Halsted’s Human First Award. Photo by Kat Fitzgerald, mysticimagesphotography.com PAGE 14 HUMAN FIRST THE HEAT IS ON ... Center on Halsted marks 10 years ... with WCT’s summer theater and dance special. 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James Baldwin, our elder It is almost inconceivable that homophobia kept one of the lead- GUEST brother, looking after his flock and “raising us,” demanded that we ing proponents on race relations in America from speaking at the be better because he loved us, he loved us. March on Washington in 1963, the same year The Fire Next Time was What made him so brave was not necessarily his orientation or published. We need to appreciate what it meant for Baldwin to take COLUMN how he named it, but his refusal to ignore the sexual question and on the mantle of speaking truthfully about the subjects of sexuality by MAX S. GORDON his understanding that examining it was integral to the healing and race to a country in denial about both, and what it meant for of racism in America. What James appreciated, perhaps above all, him to keep witnessing anyway when people turned on him later, and from a very young age, was the importance of family. And he humiliated him and denigrated his work and his contribution, or knew that anything that tears apart the family will eventually bring when his later testimonials were considered by some in the ’70s and On I Am Not Your Negro down the house. For the white homosexual activist who wants to ’80s to be passé. We abandoned him, but he never abandoned us. end sexual inequality, the conversation has to include race. For What is ultimately at stake is this: If you can acknowledge James “People invent categories in order to feel safe. White people invented the Black revolutionary who wants an end to racism, fear of homo- Baldwin fully for what he was, then your admiration of him may black people to give white people identity...Straight cats invented sexuality has to be faced. True liberation cannot be achieved until lead you to a place of compassion and understanding for what you faggots so they can sleep with them without becoming faggots them- homophobia, racism and sexism are challenged and eradicated from have been taught to fear in your own life. And ultimately this may selves.” — James Baldwin & Nikki Giovanni, A Dialogue (1973) our community. save your life, or someone else’s. It’s not very complicated—if you To understand what is missing from Raoul Peck’s documentary I This is part of the triumph of I Am Not Your Negro and part of its admire Baldwin for the entirety of who he was, you may embrace Am Not Your Negro, and how James Baldwin has been received and, disgrace; while it deconstructs the American sexual fear, for exam- your gay son, your lesbian daughter, rather than try and destroy too often, misconceived on the American literary landscape and in ple, that refused to acknowledge Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte them.
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