Langston Hughes

a startup ethnicity | from black to bronze

Bronze is a startup ethnicity for non-heterosexual and non-cisgender persons of African descent (25% or more) who are interested in joining a prosperous, success-focused, ethnicity aimed at excellence, economic independence, and fostering healing, creativity, and wellbeing. Not all Black LGBTQ persons will identify as bronze. This is good. Bronze is a unique startup and may not be a great fit for all persons. Similar to Jewish rites, one must undergo a conversion process to become bronze.

Bronzeness will operate like any other ethnicity or race. The offspring of bronze people will be bronze, as will their offspring, and so on. This means that over time, the bronze community will consist of both non-heterosexual and heterosexual persons, with heterosexual persons becoming 50% or more of the ethnicity. An alternative to black identity, the founders of bronze envision a chic, success-focused new ethnicity with its own refined traditions, customs, and norms.

bronzeness is a birthplace of peace

Separatism Can Birth Peace: Separation Theory

  • Bronze separation is a thesis about the physics of peace. Rather than constantly asking for humane treatment or begging for cultural change that is unlikely to occur, or continuing to remain in an environment where our well-being is under threat, what if we gave up the fight? What if we let people be who they are and simply invent something new? Ethical separation births peace without requiring social change. Social change is not the only pathway to change. 

  • Separation is more than this. It is also a form of acceptance. Separation theory argues that it is in the constant search for an acceptance that is just not possible that is a key source of our pain. If a mother has clearly abandoned her child, and if that child is unable to accept their abandonment, self-destruction will follow. We are orphans. This “impossible search” for love keeps us in constant contortions: constantly hiding ourselves, constantly self-amputating our creativity and expressiveness; it keeps us in an abusive relationship where repulsion, insults, and dehumanization are the norm. Like those in abusive relationships, black lgbtq folks are in denial about the trauma this abuse creates.

  • Separation is a means of prevention, diffusing embers of violence. Separation, then, not only allows all sides to maintain their beliefs, politics, and faiths, but by preventing violence, it brings peace.

  • Separation creates peace for all involved. While separation creates peace for Bronze people and the freedom to live as they want, it also enables peace across the African diaspora, for those who remain opposed to Bronze persons, families, art, and the very prospect of being Bronze. Bronze liberation sees divorce as a solution that is profoundly moral, cultural, and psychologically valuable.

 FAQs

  • The conversion process is currently being designed. It will focus on healing and self-empowerment and will include new rites of bronze identity as well as education about the future of the bronze identity

  • The decision to use the terms non-heterosexual over gay or lesbian and non-cisgender of transgender stems from two realities:

    The first is descriptive inclusivity of an entire range of identities. There is asymmetric diversity when comparing heterosexual and non-heterosexual sexuality, with the latter being far less diverse, straightforward, and less prone to evolution. Thus, rather than a term that seeks to capture a wide-ranging, ever-changing, collection of self-identifications. it is both simpler and far more inclusive to use the term, non-heterosexual which encompassed everyone from abstinent non-heterosexual persons to pansexuals. Similarly non-cisgender skips the problem of demaracting those who may be intersex from those who prefer “third gender” identifications. Since not being cisgender is the aspect shared by this group, “non-cisgender” becomes a perfect encompassing term that obviates the categorization problems inherent to non-standard biologies.

    The second motivation for the use of the terms is in its modernism. As new scientific findings emerge regarding the biology of human difference (and these are emerging slowly), new scientific findings—-powered by AI—- will reveal far more human complexity than is captured by pre-modern umbrella categories such as lgbtq. Since bronze people are forging a distinct identity that is beyond lgbtq labels, concepts and identities, the semantic baggage of the lgbtq+ label makes forging this new path easier and the creation of a new identity less challenging.

    To conclude, “non-heterosexual” and “non-cisgender” are simpler, more accurate and inclusive, more conducive to inevitable evolutions in identity, self-identifications, and scientific discoveries. Lastly, because of the tern’s freedom from the semantic baggage tied to LGBT+ identities, it is in alignment with bronze people’s desire to construct a new identity.

  • Yes. Ashkenazi jews and Shepardic jews were once part of the same community. Creating an ethnicity from scratch offers a rare opportunity to start over. We can take the best practices from other cultures, and custom design an ethnicity that not only enables us to exist, but which reflects the very best practices. This means high standards from the start, and leaving behind practices that don’t work.

  • Bronze liberation is the last step before full self-actualization:

    • Becoming bronze is about no longer having to carry the mantle for people who won't do the same for you.

    • Becoming bronze is about no longer being ridiculed for being insufficiently black or having

    • Becoming bronze means no longer having the people who hate you most in the same "house" with you.

    • Becoming bronze is about being exhausted from comments about being sweet, soft, sassy, zesty, a battyboy, waste, shame, embarrassment, agenda, abomination, not a real man. You were never those. You are none of those things. You are bronze.

  • Because we believe that there is no room within black identity for queer identity, we call for the creation of a new ethnic group called BRONZE. Due to the usual, extreme conditions black queer people face globally and because we believe that the extreme homophobia found in all black countries, cultures, collectives, and communities is likely permanent, we propose creating a new startup ethnic group for the racially displaced. Persons who identify as this new category will be known as bronze persons. Like black, brown, or white persons, bronze persons will develop their own separate culture that fully celebrates and affirms their identity and will eventually seek a separate legal status both domestically and globally (though this is not required). An entirely elective new ethnic identity, black lgbtq persons will be free to choose to remain or transition to this new startup ethnicity. 

  • Bronze is a startup ethnicity for non-heterosexual and non-cisgender persons of African descent (25% or more) who are interested in joining a prosperous, success-focused, ethnicity aimed at excellence, economic independence, and fostering healing, creativity, and wellbeing. Similar to Jewish rites, one must undergo a conversion process to become bronze.

  • What if we give up the fight for equality? Adopting an acceptance model, we are a group of non-heterosexual persons of African descent who believe that walking away is an act of love for self and the diaspora. In a separate ethnicity, we can self-actualize, build wealth, and prosper creatively and personally. Like separating from an abusive partner, this move is about the possibility of peace for both bronze people who can be themselves and peace for global black populations who refuse lgbtq persons and communities. For the Bronze Liberation Movement, peace is the decision to stop an impossible fight, accept our reality, and start anew. Learn more.