The greatest taboo
Subtitle: homosexuality in Black communities
By: edited by Delroy Constanine-Simms ; with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Contributors: Constantine-Simms, Delroy.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alyson Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: African American gays; African Americans -- Attitudes; Homophobia -- United States; African American churches; African American arts; Homosexuality -- Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Lambda Literary Award, 2001
Table of contents: title: My gay problem, your black problem -- Earl Ofari Hutchinson; title: Are you black first or are you queer? -- Gregory Conerly; title: Can the queen speak? Racial essentialism, sexuality, and the problem of authority -- Dwight A. McBride; title: Safety among strangers: the million man march -- Townsand Price-Spratlen; title: Homophobia in black communities -- Bell Hooks; title: Is homosexuality the greatest taboo? -- Delroy Constantine-Simms; title: Feeling the spirit in the dark : expanding notions of the sacred in the African American gay community -- E. Patrick Johnson; title: Their own received them not : African American lesbians and gays in black churches -- Horace Griffin -- 0; title: Lighting the Harlem Renaissance AFire!! : embodying Richard Bruce Nugent's Bohemian politic -- Seth Clark Silberman; title: The lives of Richmond Barthé -- Margaret Rose Vendryes; title: Any love : silence, theft, and rumor in the work of Luther Vandross -- Jason King; title: Hip hop's closet : a fanzine article touches a nerve -- Touré; title: Bessie Smith : one of the first divas -- Kennette Crockett; title: The house the kids built : the gay black imprint on American dance music -- Anthony Thomas; title: A feisty female rapper breaks the hip-hop taboo -- Laura Jamison; title: Rereading voices from the past : images of homo-eroticism in the slave narrative -- Charles Clifton; title: Envisioning lives : homosexuality and black popular literature -- Craig Seymour; title: Swishing and swaggering : homosexuality in black magazines during the 1950s -- Gregory Conerly; title: Eloquence and epitaph : black nationalism and the homophobic response the death of Max Robinson -- Philip Brian Harper; title: Containing AIDS : Magic Johnson and post-Reagan America-- Cheryl L. Cole.