Black Gay Man: Essays

213 Pages·2001·0.666 MB·English

by  Robert F. Reid-Pharr

Black Gay Man

SEXUAL CULTURES: New Directions from the Center for
Lesbian and Gay Studies
General Editors: José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Samuel R. Delany
Private Affairs
Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations
Phillip Brian Harper
In Your Face
9 Sexual Studies
Mandy Merck
Tropics of Desire
Interventions from Queer Latino America
José Quiroga
Murdering Masculinities
Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel
Greg Forter
Our Monica, Ourselves
The Clinton Affair and the National Interest
Edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan
Black Gay Man
Essays
Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Foreword by Samuel R. Delany
Black Gay Man
Essays
ROBERT F. REID-PHARR
Foreword by Samuel R. Delany
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London
© 2001 by New York University
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reid-Pharr, Robert, 1965–
Black gay man : essays / Robert Reid-Pharr ; foreword by
Samuel R. Delany.
p. cm. — (Sexual cultures)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8147-7502-0 (cloth) — ISBN 0-8147-7503-9 (paper)
1. African American gays. 2. African Americans—Race identity.
3. African Americans—Intellectual life. I. Title. II. Series.
HQ76.2.U5 R45 2001
305.38'96642—dc21 2001000080
New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and
their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword by Samuel R. Delany xi
Introduction 1
BLACK
I Speaking through Anti-Semitism 21
II Cosmopolitan Afrocentric Mulatto Intellectual 44
III At Home in America 62
GAY
IV Dinge 85
V Tearing the Goat’s Flesh 99
VI The Shock of Gary Fisher 135
MAN
VII Living as a Lesbian 153
VIII It’s Raining Men: Notes on the Million Man March 164
IX A Child’s Life 176
Notes 183
Index 191
About the Author 195

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Acknowledgments
For opening innumerable doors for me, to the heart, to the head,
to the tools of my trade many thanks and much love go to Lee
Baker, Mia Bay, Roberto Bedoya, Jodi Benjamin, Herman Bennett,
Antoinette Burton, Hazel Carby, Bill Cohen, Arnaldo Cruz-
Malave, Patricia Dixon, Cheryl Dunye, Shelly Eversley, Gerard
Fergerson, Carl Fraley, Shari Frilot, Robert Garland, Venita
George, Paul Gilroy, Alan Grossman, Siba Grovogui, John Guil-
lory, Phillip Brian Harper, Benjamin Herman, Francisco Herrera,
K. Brent Hill, Michael Johnson, Alexandra Juhasz, John Keene,
Katrina Bell McDonald, Dwight McBride, Alfred Manuel, Frank
Mitchell, Elena Mòdol, Darrell Moore, Jennifer Morgan, Zachary
Morgan, Bruce Morrow, José Muñoz, Odena Neale, Eve Oishi, Ri-
cardo Ortiz, John Plotz, Sabiyha Prince, Yevette Richards, Colin
Robinson, Joaquim Rodríguez, Joan Saez, Roger Schulte, Robert
Sciasi, Eve Sedgwick, Barbara Smith, Paul Smith, Dina Suggs,
Ibrahim, Sundiata, Peter Taylor, Sasha Torres, Scott Trafton,
Michelle Wallace, Joe Wittreich, Tony Young, and Eric Zinner.

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