The Black Gay Identity

The Black Gay Identity
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The Black Gay Identity
“The Future is Very Uncertain”: Black Gay Self-Making in Melvin Dixon’s Diaries narrates the multiple marginalizations faced by Melvin Dixon owing to his black and homosexual identities. The chapter explores the contents of Melvin Dixon’s diaries, which he privately kept from 1965 until 1991, and which contain extensive accounts of his lived experiences as a black gay man in the post-Stonewall era. The diaries recount his struggle against racism and homophobia, over and above, coming to terms with AIDS as both a terminal and typecast illness.
Therefore, the diary was a mode for Dixon to make sense of black gay life, navigate his complex marginalized identities, and reimagine his black gay personhood beyond its association with AIDS and social death...