As everyone knows, life isn’t necessarily easy for gay people. Gay people are at higher risk of being discriminated against in terms of their sexual orientation and not only do they face oppression because of sexual preferences, but society tends to often frown upon gay couples adopting children. A news reporter recently spent some time with a black gay man in the South to first handedly see life through the eyes of a couple that lives in a generally conservative state.
Surprisingly, while spending time with gay African American Tavaris Edwards, the reporter Preston Gannaway noted that the gay young man experienced relatively little prejudice based on his sexual orientation. This photographer spends her days in the daily life of Tavaris, who is part of the flag guard team at his college. Tavaris has a steady boyfriend named Chris Lowery and Tavaris tells Preston that he wishes to have a baby despite the fact that he’s gay. This should be a challenge considering that it’s tougher to adopt children as a gay man.
Preston notes that in their small-town community, black gay couples aren’t discriminated against and freely enjoy the free privileges that everyone may enjoy. But unfortunately for the photographer and Tavaris, the Virginian Pilot magazine didn’t think the story of black gay love would be interesting enough for its readers.
Although that was the sad point of Preston’s stay with Tavaris, she was pleased to know there was still hope for Tavaris through the respect that was given to him even when it was fully known that he was gay. She noted that that family and community seemed to be very important in that community and because of that, no one seemed to care to see a gay couple holding hands as they went out in public.
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