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   How many more black queer lives must be lost before a stop is   
   put to this?   
   The saying goes “history often repeats itself” but for those who   
   are black and Queer, that history is often violent and   
   unprotected.   
      
   A déjà vu moment for the LGBTQ community happened last week when   
   reports surfaced of another black gay man dying in the home of   
   wealthy Democratic donor Ed Buck. New and disturbingly fresh to   
   some, the story isn’t only stranger than fiction but proves gay   
   black men are fetishized in plain sight.   
      
   Let’s back up a bit. On July 27, 2017, police were called to the   
   home of Buck in West Hollywood, Calif., where the body of 26-   
   year-old Gemmel Moore was found unresponsive. The Los Angeles   
   coroner's office would initially rule Gemmel’s death an overdose   
   of crystal methamphetamine—a growing problem within the LGBTQ   
   community. However, there was an immediate outcry from the black   
   queer community, as the narrative between Moore and Buck raised   
   more questions than answers.   
      
   Today would've been Gemmel's 28h birthday. Instead of   
   celebrations and Instagram posts from friends, Gemmel's legacy   
   in the public sphere is that of a sex worker—a stirring attempt   
   to discredit his worth while subtly blaming the victim for his   
   own death. We have seen this occur many times when discussing   
   the LGBTQ sex worker community. Transgender women are also   
   painted as such in stories to devalue their worth. Far too   
   often, sex workers endure victim blaming and shaming. A societal   
   standard that contributes to the notion that sex workers are   
   partly liable in their own deaths because of “risk” involved   
   with the industry, intersected with mainstream views about sex   
   work, not fitting standards or respectability.   
      
      
   Questions began to arise about why Buck, a 65-year-old white   
   man, and social-political butterfly to Democratic party members   
   like Hillary Clinton would have someone 39 years his junior in   
   his home doing drugs. As more reporting by activist and   
   journalist Jasmyne Cannick and others continued, a tale of   
   privilege, wealth, and sexual exploitation became the new   
   narrative of story many simply tried to bury.   
      
   Reports were coming out from other young black queer men who had   
   dealings with Buck, many of them detailing his drugging of them   
   with meth by needle—a technique called “pointing.” Entries from   
   Gemmel's journal were also published by Cannick, revealing just   
   how much pain and madness he was subjected to, including Buck,   
   reportedly getting the 26-year-old hooked on drugs for sexual   
   pleasure.   
      
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   Black Fetish   
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   Jasmyne Cannick, Gemmel Moore Journal Entries About Ed Buck's   
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   It is not easy to live at the intersection of being Black and   
   Queer. It’s a double marginalization where we often find   
   ourselves devoid of allies. On one side we have our own   
   community which like all others, deals with homophobia. That   
   homophobia often times bleeds into social justice work around   
   black queer people. People who feel race should come first and   
   be the only concern.   
      
   Black queer people are often fighting for others who would never   
   fight for them. We have been conditioned by white supremacy to   
   fall prey to respectability politics that makes us see anything   
   other than cishet as an attack against our own community.   
      
   Despite the painful evidence, media began doing what it does   
   with most black victims—painting them as the deviant and the   
   abuser as the one being victimized. Gemmel was painted as a drug-   
   addicted sex worker, an attempt at dehumanizing his value.   
      
   The views of sex work in the United States intersected with   
   Gemmel being from a marginalized community was a tactic that saw   
   many blaming the victim, rather than the manipulative predatory   
   Buck, who was being protected by his wealth, whiteness, and   
   proximity to those in power.   
      
      
   Following the LA coroner’s report, social media outrage   
   eventually forced the LA Sheriff’s department to give the full   
   investigation into the matter that it deserved. Unfortunately,   
   after several months of getting statements and going over the   
   evidence, the LA prosecutor's office refused to indict Buck,   
      
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