But here's the brutal truth: The social privilege of whiteness still affords them a disproportionate amount of power in the gay community. Gay white men were born gay, but they were also raised and socialized as white men - the social group vested with the most privilege in America. When it comes to the modern fight for equal rights, it's imperative that we remind our straight counterparts that we were born this way. As a child, I ogled Omri Katz in Hocus Pocus, enjoyed playing with girls and their dolls and wanted to be Ginger Spice. Gay men like me felt our sexual orientation as an ineffable presence as long as we can remember.
