 Black Like Us
A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction
Edited by Devon W. Carbado, Dwight A. McBride and Donald Weise
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Black Like Us chronicles 100 years of the African
American lesbian, gay, and bisexual literary tradition. Beginning with the
turn-of-the-century writings of Angelina Welde Grimke and Alice Dunbar Nelson,
it charts the evolution of black lesbian and gay fiction into the Harlem
Renaissance of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen and the later postwar era, in
which works by Audre Lorde and James Baldwin signal the emerging sexual
liberation movements. The 40 authors featured also include Alice Walker, E. Lynn
Harris, Audre Lorde, April Sinclair, Jewelle Gomez, Thomas Glave, and Jacqueline
Woodson.
"Black Like Us" chronicles 100 years of the
African-American lesbian, gay, and bisexual literary tradition. Beginning with
turn-of-the-century writings, it charts the evolution of black lesbian and gay
fiction into the Harlem Renaissance of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and the
later postwar era.
Chronicles one hundred years of
African-American homosexual literature, from the turn-of-the-century writings of
Alice Dunbar Nelson, to the Harlem Renaissance of Langston Hughes.
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 Beyond
the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America
by Keith Boykin
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Bolstered by national television exposure on Oprah and a cover story
in the New York Times Magazine, the "down low"-a term used to refer
to closeted black men who have sex with men-was thrust out into the
open last year. Keith Boykin, a former Clinton White House aide,
syndicated columnist, and AIDS activist, breaks new ground by going
beyond the media hype with the first responsible, eye-opening look
at the down low sensation. Unlike all previous accounts on the
topic, Beyond the Down Low refreshingly presents the DL not merely
as a problem of gay and bisexual men living in the shadows and
endangering women with HIV, but more broadly as a telling example of
the African-American community's overall failure to engage in
critical but uncomfortable conversations about sexuality. Chief
among those blacks who have lagged behind in leadership have been
the black church, the African-American news media, and the black
civil rights establishment, including the NAACP. Beyond the Down Low
is a provocative, timely, and well-researched answer to the question
"Why are so many black men on the DL?" More importantly, the book is
a prescriptive solution to ending the closet in black America.
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