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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Negotiating the Racial Politics of Black Sexual Identity | |
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| My Gay Problem, Your Black Problem | |
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| Are You Black First Or Are You Queer? | |
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| Can the Queen Speak? Racial Essentialism, Sexuality, and the Problem of Authority | |
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| Safety Among Strangers: The Million Man March | |
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| Homophobia in Black Communities | |
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| Sexuality and the Black Church | |
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| Is Homosexuality the Greatest Taboo? | |
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| Feeling the Spirit in the Dark: Expanding Notions of the Sacred in the African American Gay Community | |
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| Their Own Received Them Not: African American Lesbians and Gays in Black Churches | |
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| Homosexuality in Africa | |
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| Heart of Lavender | |
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| Hearing Voices: Unearthing Evidence of Homosexuality in Precolonial Africa | |
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| Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism: Two Idealtypical Expressions of Female Homosexuality in Black Communities of the Diaspora | |
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| Institutionalizing Sexuality: Theorizing Queer in Post-Apartheid South Africa | |
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| Homosexuality and Heterosexist Dress Codes | |
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| How RuPaul Works: Signifying and Contextualizing the Mythic Black [Drag Queen] Mother | |
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| Creations of Fantasies/Constructions of Identities: The Oppositional Lives of Gladys Bentley | |
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| Black Men in the Mix: Badboys, Heroes, Sequins, and Dennis Rodman | |
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| Iconic Signifiers of the Gay Harlem Renaissance | |
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| Lighting the Harlem Renaissance AFire!!: Embodying Richard Bruce Nugent's Bohemian Politic | |
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| The Lives of Richmond Barthe | |
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| Heterosexism and Homophobia in Popular Black Music | |
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| Any Love: Silence, Theft, and Rumor in the Work of Luther Vandross | |
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| Hip Hop's Closet: A Franzine Article Touches a Nerve | |
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| Bessie Smith: One of the First Divas | |
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| The House the Kids Built: The Gay Black Imprint on American Dance Music | |
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| A Feisty Female Rapper Breaks a Hip-Hop Taboo | |
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| Homosexuality in Popular Black Literature | |
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| Rereading Voices From the Past: Images of Homo-Eroticism in the Slave Narrative | |
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| Envisioning Lives: Homosexuality and Black Popular Literature | |
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| Swishing and Swaggering: Homosexuality in Black Magazines During the 1950s | |
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| The Silent Mythology Surrounding AIDS and Public Icons | |
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| Eloquence and Epitaph: Black Nationalism and the Homophobic Response the Death of Max Robinson | |
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| Containing AIDS: Magic Johnson and Post-Reagan America | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Contributors | |