Dangerous liaisons : blacks, gays, and the struggle for equality /
Dangerous liaisons : blacks, gays, and the struggle for equality /
edited by Eric Brandt.
- New York : The New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., ©1999.
- x, 312 p. ; 22 cm.
Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. [308]-312.
Includes bibliographical references.
Offering a platform for dialogue / Blacks and gays : healing the great divide / Blacklash? / The failure to transform: homophobia in the black community / Race and the invisible dyke / Nothing special : the specious attack on civil rights / Blacks and gays in conflict: an interview with U.S. Representative Barney Frank / Fighting homophobia versus challenging heterosexism: "The failure to transform" revisited / "Jesus wept": reflections on HIV dis-ease and the churches of black folk / "Whosoever" is welcome here: an interview with Reverend Edwin C. Sanders II / Black lesbians: passing, stereotypes and transformation / Writing Robeson / Transferences and confluences: black poetries, the Black Arts movement, and black lesbian-feminism / More man than you'll ever be: Antonio Fargas, Eldridge Cleaver and Toni Morrison's Beloved / The shock of Gary Fisher / Some queer notions about race / On heterosexism and transformation: an interview / There is no hierarchy of oppressions / Eric Brandt -- Barbara Smith -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Cheryl Clarke -- Mab Segrest -- Alisa Solomon -- Keith Boykin -- Cathy J. Cohen and Tamara Jones -- Reginald Glenn Blaxton -- Gary David Comstock -- Jewelle Gomez -- Martin Duberman -- Cheryl Clarke -- Darieck Scott -- Robert F. Reid-Pharr -- Samuel R. Delany -- Cornel West -- Audre Lorde. Introduction:
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Homophobia--United States.
Heterosexism--United States.
Homophobia--Religious aspects--Christianity.
African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans--Attitudes.
Civil rights movements--History.--United States
Gay liberation movement--History.--United States
United States--Race relations.
United States--Politics and government.
HQ76.45.U5 / D35 1999
305.896/073
Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. [308]-312.
Includes bibliographical references.
Offering a platform for dialogue / Blacks and gays : healing the great divide / Blacklash? / The failure to transform: homophobia in the black community / Race and the invisible dyke / Nothing special : the specious attack on civil rights / Blacks and gays in conflict: an interview with U.S. Representative Barney Frank / Fighting homophobia versus challenging heterosexism: "The failure to transform" revisited / "Jesus wept": reflections on HIV dis-ease and the churches of black folk / "Whosoever" is welcome here: an interview with Reverend Edwin C. Sanders II / Black lesbians: passing, stereotypes and transformation / Writing Robeson / Transferences and confluences: black poetries, the Black Arts movement, and black lesbian-feminism / More man than you'll ever be: Antonio Fargas, Eldridge Cleaver and Toni Morrison's Beloved / The shock of Gary Fisher / Some queer notions about race / On heterosexism and transformation: an interview / There is no hierarchy of oppressions / Eric Brandt -- Barbara Smith -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Cheryl Clarke -- Mab Segrest -- Alisa Solomon -- Keith Boykin -- Cathy J. Cohen and Tamara Jones -- Reginald Glenn Blaxton -- Gary David Comstock -- Jewelle Gomez -- Martin Duberman -- Cheryl Clarke -- Darieck Scott -- Robert F. Reid-Pharr -- Samuel R. Delany -- Cornel West -- Audre Lorde. Introduction:
1565844556 9781565844551
98056062
Homophobia--United States.
Heterosexism--United States.
Homophobia--Religious aspects--Christianity.
African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans--Attitudes.
Civil rights movements--History.--United States
Gay liberation movement--History.--United States
United States--Race relations.
United States--Politics and government.
HQ76.45.U5 / D35 1999
305.896/073