Dangerous liaisons
Subtitle: Blacks & gays and the struggle for equality
By: edited by Eric Brandt
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781565844551
Subjects: Homophobia -- United States.; Heterosexism -- United States.; Homophobia -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; African Americans -- Civil rights.; African Americans -- Attitudes.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.; Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History.; United States -- Race relations.; United States -- Politics and government.
Description: Dangerous Liaisons provides a platform for the leading minds of both communities - including thinkers who straddle both worlds - to debate the volatile subject of the relationship between African Americans and homosexuals. It includes writing on minority relations by well-known historians, political analysts, activists, writers, and philosophers.

They address such timely issues as recent high-profile hate crimes against blacks and gays: racism in gay and lesbian rights organizations; homophobia in the black church; the shift in highest rate-of-infection of HIV from the gay community to the black community; and stereotypes in books and films.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Offering a platform for dialogue -- Eric Brandt; title: Blacks and gays : healing the great divide -- Barbara Smith; title: Backlash? -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; title: Failure to transform : homophobia in the black community -- Cheryl Clarke; title: Race and the invisible dyke -- Mab Segrest; title: Nothing special : the specious attack on civil rights -- Alisa Solomon; title: Blacks and gays in conflict : an interview with U.S. Representative Barney Frank -- Keith Boykin; title: Fighting homophobia versus challenging heterosexism : "the failure to transform" revisited -- Cathy J. Cohen and Tamara Jones; title: "Jesus wept" : reflections on HIV dis-ease and the churches of black folk -- Reginald Glenn Blaxton; title: "Whosoever" is welcome here : an interview with Reverend Edwin C. Sanders II -- Gary David Comstock; title: Black lesbians : passing, stereotypes and transformation -- Jewelle Gomez; title: Writing Robeson -- Martin Duberman; title: Transferences and confluences : black poetries, the Black Arts movement, and black lesbian-feminism -- Cheryl Clarke; title: More man than you'll ever be : Antonio Fargas, Eldridge Cleaver and Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Darieck Scott; title: Shock of Gary Fisher -- Robert F. Reid-Pharr; title: Some queer notions about race -- Samuel R. Delany; title: On heterosexism and transformation : an interview -- Cornel West; title: There is no [hierarchy] of oppressions -- Audre Lorde.