Why 50% of Gay Black Men Will Get HIV

Contents:

• HIV AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• BEG BLACK AND GAY: HOW TERSECTNAL STIGMA IMPACTS ON THE UPTAKE OF PREP
• THE HIGH RISK OF GAY BLACK MEN GETTG HIV

HIV AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

Black cultural practners explore the Black gay male physil and mental state through a variety of artistic cu and symbols at their disposal. Black gay male visual artists have worked to change how they are portrayed wh their muny and the general culture. They are but a few of the artists that portray the Black gay male body opposn to their whe unterparts.

François Féral Benga was a Senegale baret in of avant-gar Paris and the Harlem Renaissance who existed openly gay creative circl and is known to have had multiple lovers throughout his life. As an early example of homoerotic sexualy created by a Black queer male artist, the sculpture do not act as a vice for a fetish or hypersexualizatn.

BEG BLACK AND GAY: HOW TERSECTNAL STIGMA IMPACTS ON THE UPTAKE OF PREP

In Greenwich Village, where he lived and worked, Delaney beme part of a gay bohemian circle of maly whe iends, but he was unfortable wh his sexualy. He feared that many of his Harlem iends would be unfortable or repelled by his homosexualy. Passg/Posg, Patgs & Fx Chapel is a portfol wh 17 lor offset lhographs that pict Ain Amerin gay men styled a Black heteronormative fashn set different baroque backgrounds.

This panel illtratg a red door slightly ajar revealg a silver lg is the entrance to an enchanted place where young gay men dream of beg of age to enter. The Red Door is the entrance to the legendary gay club known as the ‘Marquette, ’ sometim referred to as the “Quy.

It is known that Ellison held a moralist anti-gay polil view.

THE HIGH RISK OF GAY BLACK MEN GETTG HIV

Scholar and bgrapher Arnold Rampersad not his bgraphy on Ellison that he acced homosexual officials of havg “hound” him out of llege.

Also, found his Ellison’s papers, he wrote of Jam Baldw 1953, “He don’t know the difference between gettg relign and gog homo. ” Ellison’s view of homosexualy strengthens Ligon’s e of his text analyzg the feelg of visibily by Black queer men. A send work om Glenn Ligon, Untled (Barbershop), is a mentary on the role of the barbershop the Black muny—while a safe space to Black masculy, to Black queer men, is a space of ntempt, a homophobic stutn where they are not accepted and may be physilly harmed.

The whe male cis-genred members of the LGBTQ+ see Ain Amerin gay men as aggrsive and domant symbols of hyper-heterosexualy that are at the mercy of their whims. Harg and Mapplethorpe’s works othered the Ain Amerin Gay Male as a cultural artifact, and as a rult, rced to a vsel to be filled wh sexual fetish. They chose the mos of reprentatn that bt su them, whout the gaze of the heteropatriarchy and whe cis-genred gay men.