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This edited volume examines how and where gay men of color find "home" and what kind of home they find, how they make sense of race and sexuality, and how their experiences reflect what it means to be "raced" and "sexed" in America. The contributors argue both racially and sexually marginalized groups all confront levels of racism and heterosexism that is practiced by the larger ethnic and sexual communities that use white heterosexuality as the "norm" to which all others are compared. They further argue that despite different constructions of race and ethnicity, there are similar themes for racialized groups that need to be explored.
List of contents
Introduction: Home is Where the Heart is: Invisibility and Marginalization for Queer Men of Color
Jesus Gregorio Smith
Chapter 1: "Damn, I'm Dating a Lot of White Guys": Gay Men's Individual Narratives of Racial Sexual Orientation Development
Jason Crockett
Chapter 2: They Don't Date Any Dark People: The Queer Case of Gay Racism
C. Winter Han and Scott E. Rutlege
Chapter 3: "OK, so Zion's Not a Sissy Anymore He's Gay, so Let's Call Him That": From Elementary School to College: Schooling Experiences of Black Gay Males Leading to Understanding and Self-Possession of Their Intersecting Racial and Sexual Identities
Michael D. Bartone
Chapter 4: Gay Latino Greeks: Finding a "Familia" in a Latino Fraternity
Manuel Del Real
Chapter 5: Gayborbood Change: The Intertwined Sexual and Racial Character Of Assimilation in Chicago's Boystown
Jason Orne
Chapter 6: Queer Loneliness, Queer Hopefulness: Toward Restaging the Intersectionality of Gay + Asian/American from the Southwest
Shinsuke Eguchi
Chapter 7: Navigating the Spaces between Racial/Ethnic and Sexual Orientation: Black Gay Immigrants' Experiences of Racism and Homophobia in Montréal, Canada
Sulaimon Giwa, Kofi Norsah, and Ferzana Chaze
Chapter 8: The Crime of Black Male Sexuality: Tiger Mandingo and Black Male Vulnerability
Jesus Gregorio Smith
Chapter 9: Experiencing Queer Spaces as a Transgender Man of Color
Mario I. Suárez
Conclusion
C. Winter Han
About the author
Aimee Pozorski is professor of English and director of English graduate studies at Central Connecticut State University.David W. McIvor is assistant professor of political science at Colorado State University.David W. McIvor is assistant professor of political science at Colorado State University.T. K. Rogers is retired engineer and STEM educator.Shinsuke Eguchi is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico.Sulaimon Giwa, PhD, (he/him/his) is an associate professor and interim dean of social work at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. Sulaimon is a scholar-activist who self-identifies as Black, Muslim, and gay. He authored the 2022 book, Racism and Gay Men of Color: Living and Coping with Discrimination.
Summary
This edited volume examines how and where gay men of color find “home” and what kind of home they find, how they make sense of race and sexuality, and how their experiences reflect what it means to be “raced” and “sexed” in America.
