C Riley Snorton: 2 books
Nobody Is Supposed to Know
Black Sexuality on the Down Low
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the “down low”—black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual—has exploded in news media and popular culture, from the Oprah Winfrey Show to R & B singer R. Kelly’s hip hopera Trapped in the Closet....
Black on Both Sides
A Racial History of Trans Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure...