num_pages: 200
description: Ceremonies offers provocative commentary on highly charged topics such as Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of African-American men, feminism among men, and AIDS in the black community.
language: English
title: Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
titlecomplete: Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
genres: Literature, Queer, African American, Memoir, Essays, LGBT, Race, Poetry, Queer Lit, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 250
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Men's Poetry
publisher: Cleis Press