William G. Hawkeswood's One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem PDF

By William G. Hawkeswood

Homosexual black males, a thriving way of life of the black and homosexual groups, are doubly marginalized. besides different black males, they're as a rule portrayed within the media and literature as ''street nook men''--unemployed drifters, absentee fathers, substance abusers. within the higher homosexual group, they're an invisible minority. one of many kids , the 1st formal cultural examine of homosexual black males in Harlem, not just illuminates this section of America's homosexual inhabitants yet offers a much richer, extra different portrait of black men's lives than is often perceived. in line with years' in depth research--during which the writer lived in Harlem's homosexual community--including vast interviews with fifty-seven neighborhood participants, this publication depicts homosexual black men's lives in all their social, financial, and cultural complexity. William Hawkeswood takes us from the road into the houses and lives of his matters. He describes the frilly community of pals, known as ''family,'' that helps those males emotionally and financially, and the community's two-tiered fiscal constitution, comprising homosexual males and ''boys,'' or hustlers. Hawkeswood additionally explores what it ability for those males to be either homosexual and black. within the procedure, he makes the astonishing discovery that whereas the AIDS virus looms throughout them, it has now not but considerably affected the neighborhood of homosexual blacks who pick out their sexual companions completely from between Harlem's different homosexual black males.

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Twentyfive max. " Darrell usually arrives at one of the bars about two or three in the afternoon. He'll have a drink with one of the "bargirls" who work the day shift behind the bar or get one of the older gentlemen who drink in the bars during the daytime to buy him a drink or something to eat. He runs errands for patrons, buys coffee or lunch for the bar staff, and picks up "smoke" (marijuana) for those who need it. M. , he starts getting high himself. M. "A Nice Guy" Some of the "boys" have no need for the money but have entered the trade voluntarily because they like the business.

Give thanks for Paul! Louis and Paul have been living together for about seven years, just off St. Nicholas Avenue at 150th Street in Harlem. Louis is very proud of himself, his college degrees, and his vocational history. He says he is proud to be both black and gay and that his non-gay friends and family are slowly accepting and understanding his gayness. He is currently working hard to put a younger sister through college, an act that is endearing him even more to his mother. He and Paul also support two less fortunate gay men in their immediate neighborhood as they struggle to complete their high school equivalency diplomas.

Nevertheless, they are "brothers" in the gay community and are treated as such. Kinfolk Family is a very important factor in the lives of black people. There is much social-scientific literature to attest to this. [10] Twenty-eight of my fifty-seven respondents were raised by both their parents, and one was raised by his mother and her brother. Donny noted once that he couldn't understand all the "brouhaha" about single-parent families in Harlem, when he and all his friends were raised by both parents: "My daddy only died recently.

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