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Beyond the Down Low : Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America
Beyond the Down Low Sex Lies and Denial in Black America
Author: Keith Boykin, E. Lynn Harris
ISBN-13: 9780786714346
ISBN-10: 0786714344
Publication Date: 12/13/2004
Pages: 256
Rating:
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3 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Carroll Graf
Book Type: Hardcover
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This book provides a good overview of the whole "down low" phenomenon and the way it stigmatizes gay black men. It points out the hypocrisy of a culture that frequently turns a blind eye to cheating spouses/bfs while reacting in horror at similar acts involving cheating with a spouse of the same sex. However it occasionally becomes bogged down cataloguing the media's coverage with repetitive lists