You don't get it.
It's not acceptance of homosexuality as OK, it is acceptance that homosexuality exists, and in fact is fairly widespread among black males. And that they need to take measures to protect themselves and women in the black community who have no idea their men are living a double life, against the spread of AIDS.
No, you don't get it, and neither does she. Her own words contradict her claim that she is talking about homosexuality.
"And black women are 23 times more likely to have AIDS than white women. Just a few years ago, researchers discovered a primary reason for that alarming statistic: black men who engage in homosexual activity secretly -- or 'on the down low' -- while continuing to sleep with their wives or girlfriends, who are then vulnerable to infection."
If you're a switch-hitter, by definition, you're not a homosexual. After all, haven't gays told us a million times, that if you're gay, you feel no attraction to women? Oops -- but at other times, they count bisexuals as gay -- the "gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered community." Since Tucker is a political ally of gays, she plays similar rhetorical games.
I can just see a black man telling his lady, "I also sleep with men, so I'm going to use a condom whenever we have sex, because I want to protect you." She'd have the police ushering him out of the apartment before you could say, "Cynthia!"
A central aspect that Tucker refuses to face, that involves both black men BECOMING bisexual, and often their contracting HIV, is their experiences getting raped in prison.
Who CARES about the "rhetorical games" or this convoluted nonsense over who is or isn't a "real" homosexual by definition?
It makes NO DIFFERENCE whatsoever when it comes to spreading AIDS.
The simple fact is that men having sex with men is defined as homosexual activity. PERIOD.