Title: The Greatest Taboo
Description: Twenty-eight powerful, provocative essays from academics and writers of all ethnic heritages, genders, and sexuality, including bell hooks, Eric Garber, Seth Clarke Silberman, Gregory Conerly, and Dr. Gloria Wekker-running from 19th-century slave quarters to postapartheid South Africa, from RuPaul to the Wu Tang Clan, from 1920s Harlem to 1995's Million Man March on Washington-provide a clear-eyed societal, cultural, political, and historical view of both the transformation and continued repression of black lesbians and gay men.
Subjects: African American arts, Homosexuality, Attitudes, African American churches, African American gays, African Americans, Homophobia, African American gay men, LGBTQ essays, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Gay and lesbian studies
Places: United States, Africa