Texts and documentaries I've used in my courses include:

Marlon B. Ross, “Some Glances at the Black Fag: Race, Same-Sex Desire
and Cultural Belonging” in Jacqueline Bobo, et, al. The Black Studies
Reader. (2002): 153-173.

Laura L. Sullivan, “The Watermelon Woman and Black Lesbian Possibility,”
in Jacqueline Bobo, et, al. The Black Studies Reader. (2002): 211-223.

Alycee J. Lane, “Black Bodies, Gay Bodies: The Politics of Race in the
Gay/Military Battle,” in Jacqueline Bobo, et, al. The Black Studies
Reader. (2002): 315-328.

Dwight A. McBridge, “Can the Queen Speak? Racial Essentialism,
Sexuality, and the Problem of Authority,” in Jacqueline Bobo, et, al.
The Black Studies Reader. (2002): 343-357.

Patricia Hill Collins, “No Storybook Romance: How Race and Gender
Matter,” in Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the
New Racism (Routledge, 2005): 247-278.

Portions of Gill Robertson IV, Not in My Family: AIDS in the African
American Community (2006).

Portions of Dwight McBride, Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on
Race and Sexuality in America (New York University Press, 2005).

Alexis De Veaux, Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde (New York:
W.W. Norton, 2004).

The Confessions of James Baldwin,” in Living Our Stories, Telling Our
Truths: Autobiography and the Making of African American Intellectual
Traditions, 277-317.

Gary David Comstock, A Whosoever Church: Welcoming Lesbians and Gay Men
into African American Congregations (2001)



Documentaries:
Tongues Untied (1989)
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1990)
Paris is Burning (1990)
Black Is...Black Ain't (1995)
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Writings of Audre Lorde (1995).
Brother Outsider: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (2003).
Flag Wars (2003).
Hip-Hop Beyond Beats and Rhymes (2007).

Fictional Film:
The Watermelon Woman (1996).
Brother to Brother (2004)

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