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21. Tongues Untied Still 5

Creator / Contributor:
Marlon T. Riggs
Date Created / Date Issued:
1989
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
Film Still
Type:
Film
Language:
English
Topic:
African American gay men -- Social conditions, African American gay men -- Race identity, Male homosexuality -- United States, Homophobia -- United States, Racism -- United States, Gay men -- United States -- Social conditions, African American men -- Social conditions, Nonfiction films, Documentary films, Documentary videos, Biographical films, Biographical videos, and Experimental films
Source Collection Identifier:
PUBNUM: 5005-2 and OCLC: (OCoLC)214094813

22. Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence

Creator / Contributor:
Darius Bost
Date Created / Date Issued:
2018
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
Evidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of unsolved murders, seemingly abandoned by the government and mainstream culture. Yet in this darkest of moments, a new vision of community and hope managed to emerge. Darius Bost's account of the media, poetry, and performance of this time and place reveals a stunning confluence of activism and the arts. In Washington and New York during the 1980s and '90s, gay black men banded together, using creative expression as a tool to challenge the widespread views that marked them as unworthy of grief. They created art that enriched and reimagined their lives in the face of pain and neglect, while at the same time forging a path toward bold new modes of existence. At once a corrective to the predominantly white male accounts of the AIDS crisis and an openhearted depiction of the possibilities of black gay life, Evidence of Being above all insists on the primacy of community over loneliness, and hope over despair.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African American gay men -- Washington (D.C.)| African American gay men -- New York (State) -- New York| American literature -- African American authors| Hemphill, Essex| Dixon, Melvin, 1950-1992
Source Collection Identifier:
ISBN: 0-226-58996-X| OCLC: (OCoLC)1076262129| ISBN: 0-226-58982-X| ISBN: 0-226-58979-X
Source Collection Name:
Black Queer Studies Collection

23. Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire

Creator / Contributor:
GerShun Avilez
Date Created / Date Issued:
2020
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
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Description:
Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists' work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have used art to create spaces for justice. He first focuses on how the state seeks to inhibit the movement of black queer bodies through public spaces, whether on the street or across borders. From there, he pivots to institutional spaces--specifically prisons and hospitals--and the ways such places seek to expose queer bodies in order to control them. Throughout, he reveals how desire and art open routes to black queer freedom when policy, the law, racism, and homophobia threaten physical safety, civil rights, and social mobility.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African American gays, Gays, Black, African American arts, Gay artists, Homophobia, Racism, and Queer theory
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 2020023363, ISBN: 0252052250, ISBN: 9780252052255, OCLC: (OCoLC)1159605355, OCLC: (OCoLC)on1159605355, and ISBN: 9780252043376