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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 a 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 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 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 vii 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. ix
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