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My gay problem, your black problem / Earl Ofari Hutchinson -- Are you black first or are you queer? / Gregory Conerly -- Can the queen speak? Racial essentialism, sexuality, and the problem of authority / Dwight A. McBride -- Safety among strangers: the million man march / Townsand Price-Spratlen -- Homophobia in black communities / Bell Hooks -- Is homosexuality the greatest taboo? / Delroy Constantine-Simms -- Feeling the spirit in the dark : expanding notions of the sacred in the African American gay community / E. Patrick Johnson -- Their own received them not : African American lesbians and gays in black churches / Horace Griffin. |
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Heart of lavender / Eugene J. Patron -- Hearing voices : unearthing evidence of homosexuality in precolonial Africa / Cary Alan Johnson -- Mati-ism and black lesbianism : two idealtypical expressions of female homosexuality in black communities of the diaspora / Gloria Wekker -- Institutionalizing sexuality : theorizing queer in post-apartheid South Africa / Vasu Reddy -- How RuPaul works : signifying and contextualizing the mythic black [drag queen] mother / Seth Clark Silberman -- Creations of fantasies/consturctions of identities : the oppositional lives of Gladys Bentley / Carmen Mitchell -- Black men in the mix : badboys, heroes, sequins, and Dennis Rodman / Lindon Barrett. |
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Lighting the Harlem Renaissance AFire!! : embodying Richard Bruce Nugent's Bohemian politic / Seth Clark Silberman -- The lives of Richmond Barthé / Margaret Rose Vendryes -- Any love : silence, theft, and rumor in the work of Luther Vandross / Jason King -- Hip hop's closet : a fanzine article touches a nerve / Touré -- Bessie Smith : one of the first divas / Kennette Crockett -- The house the kids built : the gay black imprint on American dance music / Anthony Thomas -- A feisty female rapper breaks the hip-hop taboo / Laura Jamison --Rereading voices from the past : images of homo-eroticism in the slave narrative / Charles Clifton -- Envisioning lives : homosexuality and black popular literature / Craig Seymour -- Swishing and swaggering : homosexuality in black magazines during the 1950s / Gregory Conerly -- Eloquence and epitaph : black nationalism and the homophobic response the death of Max Robinson / Philip Brian Harper -- Containing AIDS : Magic Johnson and post-Reagan America / Cherly L. Cole. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 00045391 |
| ISBN | 1555835643 (pbk.) |
