The greatest taboo : homosexuality in Black communities / edited by Delroy Constantine-Simms ; with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles : Alyson Books, 2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 460 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1555835643
  • 9781555835644
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.9/0664 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.3.U5 G74 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
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 -- 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/constructions of identities: the oppositional lives of Gladys Bentley / Carmen Mitchell -- Black men in the mix: badboys, heroes, sequins, and Dennis Rodman / Lindon Barrett -- 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 to the death of Max Robinson / Philip Brian Harper -- Containing AIDS: Magic Johnson and post-Reagan America / Cheryl L. Cole -- Epilogue / Conrad Pegues.
Awards:
  • Lambda Literary Award, 2001: Anthology Nonfiction.
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Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. 455-460.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 -- 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/constructions of identities: the oppositional lives of Gladys Bentley / Carmen Mitchell -- Black men in the mix: badboys, heroes, sequins, and Dennis Rodman / Lindon Barrett -- 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 to the death of Max Robinson / Philip Brian Harper -- Containing AIDS: Magic Johnson and post-Reagan America / Cheryl L. Cole -- Epilogue / Conrad Pegues.

Lambda Literary Award, 2001: Anthology Nonfiction.

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