On The Down Low

Author : J.L. King,Karen Hunter
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780767913997

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On the Down Low by J.L. King,Karen Hunter Pdf

A bold exposé of the controversial secret that has potentially dire consequences in many African American communities. Delivering the first frank and thorough investigation of life “on the down low” (the DL), J. L. King exposes a closeted culture of sex between black men who lead “straight” lives. King explores his own past as a DL man, and the path that led him to let go of the lies and bring forth a message that can promote emotional healing and open discussions about relationships, sex, sexuality, and health in the black community. Providing a long-overdue wake-up call, J. L. King bravely puts the spotlight on a topic that has until now remained dangerously taboo. Drawn from hundreds of interviews, statistics, and the author’s firsthand knowledge of DL behavior, On the Down Low reveals the warning signs African American women need to know. King also discusses the potential health consequences of having unprotected sex, as African American women represent an alarming 64 percent of new HIV infections. Volatile yet vital, On the Down Low is sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year. “A survey by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta found that nearly a quarter of black HIV-positive men who had sex with men consider themselves heterosexual.” —Essence

Author : Terrance Dean
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416553397

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Hiding in Hip Hop by Terrance Dean Pdf

In the tradition of "New York Times" bestsellers "Confessions of a Video Vixen" and "It's No Secret," an entertainment industry insider presents an expos into the down low culture of Hollywood and hip hop, where straight male celebrities find themselves intimate with other men.

Author : C. Riley Snorton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452940915

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Nobody Is Supposed to Know by C. Riley Snorton Pdf

Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the “down low”—black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual—has exploded in news media and popular culture, from the Oprah Winfrey Show to R & B singer R. Kelly’s hip hopera Trapped in the Closet. Most down-low stories are morality tales in which black men are either predators who risk infecting their unsuspecting female partners with HIV or victims of a pathological black culture that repudiates openly gay identities. In both cases, down-low narratives depict black men as sexually dangerous, duplicitous, promiscuous, and contaminated. In Nobody Is Supposed to Know, C. Riley Snorton traces the emergence and circulation of the down low in contemporary media and popular culture to show how these portrayals reinforce troubling perceptions of black sexuality. Reworking Eve Sedgwick’s notion of the “glass closet,” Snorton advances a new theory of such representations in which black sexuality is marked by hypervisibility and confinement, spectacle and speculation. Through close readings of news, music, movies, television, and gossip blogs, Nobody Is Supposed to Know explores the contemporary genealogy, meaning, and functions of the down low. Snorton examines how the down low links blackness and queerness in the popular imagination and how the down low is just one example of how media and popular culture surveil and police black sexuality. Looking at figures such as Ma Rainey, Bishop Eddie L. Long, J. L. King, and Will Smith, he ultimately contends that down-low narratives reveal the limits of current understandings of black sexuality.

Author : Keith Boykin
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786717041

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Beyond the Down Low by Keith Boykin Pdf

Keith Boykin, a former Clinton White House aide, syndicated columnist, and AIDS activist, breaks new ground by going beyond the hype with the first responsible, eye-opening look at the down low sensation. Unlike all previous accounts on the topic, Beyond the Down Low refreshingly presents the DL not merely as a problem of gay and bisexual men living in the shadows and endangering women, but more broadly as a telling example of the African-American community's overall failure to engage in critical but uncomfortable conversations about sexuality. Boykin details how the virtual silence from black leaders on sex matters has helped to create an environment where gay and bisexual men feel compelled to lead double lives. Meanwhile, the dialogue that has occurred both inside and out of African-American circles encourages an unhealthy battle of the sexes, ignores the complexities of the closet, demonizes homosexuality and bisexuality, disempowers women from personal responsibility to protect themselves from STDs, and misdirects public resources and attention at vilifying down low men.

Author : Joy Marie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : NWU:35556039770763

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The Straight-up Truth about the Down-low by Joy Marie Pdf

Imagine...You Have Finally Met Mr. Right, He's everything you dreamed of: handsome, sexy, charming, intelligent, articulate, and financially successful. He even portrays the role of an excellent father. He does not smoke, drink, or use drugs and he has a decent credit history. You marry him and buy your dream house in the suburbs. Your children attend the best schools and you live in a wonderful neighborhood. You're finally living the American dream-the perfect family-But One Day You Wake Up and Realize That Your Prince Charming is Really a lying Queen.

Author : Nubia
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781411619944

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20 Warning Signs of Down Low Brothers by Nubia Pdf

20 Warning Signs of Down Low Brothers is a self-help book dedicated to stop the spread of HIV among black women as it relates to secrets of bi-sexual men sexual behaviors. In includes CDC statistics and 20 ways to tell if your man is secretly having sex with other men.

Author : J.L. King
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780307420473

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Coming Up from the Down Low by J.L. King Pdf

The dramatic follow-up to the controversial bestseller that has all of America talking… In his first book, On the Down Low, J. L. King introduced readers to the deceptive underground world of the “down low” (DL), the subculture of men leading straight lives while secretly sleeping with other men. In that first book, King’s own life was exhibit A—he lived for years as a DL man and was able to expose this lifestyle with unique authority. In this blockbuster new book, King takes readers to the next level in his exploration of the down-low world by answering the most common questions from the thousands of people he’s met while traveling the country. He provides more in-depth information about the lives of men on the DL, dispels the most common myths, and addresses the most frequently asked question of all: What are the signs? But more than that, he tells of his own transformation over the last year, as he’s moved into a more honest evaluation of his own life and the lives of other men on the DL who are trying to emerge from their web of deceit. And he courageously points to the urgent problems in our communities that drive men into such dangerous and reckless lives and keep them there. Filled with fascinating stories from the men who have lived on the down low and the women who have struggled through it with them, Coming Up from the Down Low shines more light on a phenomenon that has touched the lives of too many. It’s a vital call for greater love, tolerance, and forgiveness in our individual lives and in the lives of our communities, and an inspiration to all of us to embrace the liberating power of the truth. “The source of my expertise on this subject is, quite simply, my own life. I’ve lived this and been struggling down the road of understanding my entire life. Since the publication of the first book I’ve made further progress down that road, helped along by the thousands of you who responded. The insights I’ve gotten have transformed my understanding of this phenomenon and transformed my life. I want to share those insights with you now, to help you better understand the down-low phenomenon, yes, but also to help you better understand the potential liberating power of honesty, acceptance, and healing in our personal lives and in the life of our community.” —from the Introduction

Author : Ingrid M. Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0998784206

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Life After the Down Low by Ingrid M. Ellis Pdf

Life After the Down Low is the story of a woman deceived by a man who lived a double life as an undercover homosexual and accused child molester.

Author : Benoit Denizet-Lewis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1416594477

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American Voyeur by Benoit Denizet-Lewis Pdf

BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS, one of the most perceptive and interesting journalists writing today, takes us into some unusual precincts of American society in American Voyeur. Denizet-Lewis made news with his New York Times Magazine cover story "Double Lives on the Down Low," included here, which ignited a firestorm by revealing a subculture of African-American men who have sex with other men but who don’t consider themselves gay. In American Voyeur, he also takes us inside a summer camp for pro-life teenagers, a New Hampshire town where two young brothers committed suicide, a social group for lipstick lesbians, a middle school where a girl secretly lives as a boy, a college where fraternity boys face the daunting prospect of sobriety, a state where legally married young gay men are turning out to be more like their parents than anyone might have suspected, a high school where dating has been replaced by "hooking up," and other intersections of youth culture and sexuality. Peer behind the curtain of modern American life with this remarkable collection.

Author : A.J. Albany
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781935639770

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Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from Childhood by A.J. Albany Pdf

Wise beyond her years and hip to the unpredictable ways of life at all too early an age, A.J. Albany guides us through dope and deviance of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Hollywood shadowy underbelly and beyond. A. J. Albany's recollection of life with her father, the great jazz pianist Joe Albany, is the story of one girl's unsentimental education. Joe played with the likes of Charles Mingus, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker, but between gigs he slipped into drug-induced obscurity. It was during these times that his daughter knew him best. After her mother disappeared, six-year-old Amy Jo and her charming, troubled father set up housekeeping in a seamy Hollywood hotel. While Joe finished a set in some red-boothed dive, chances were you'd find Amy curled up to sleep on someone's fur coat, clutching a 78 of Louis Armstrong's "Sugar Blues" or, later, a photograph of the man himself, inscribed, "To little Amy Jo, always in love with you--Pops." Wise beyond her years and hip to the unpredictable ways of Old Lady Life at all too early an age, A. J. Albany guides us through the dope and deviance of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Hollywood's shadowy underbelly and beyond. What emerges is a raw, gripping, and surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a young girl trying to survive among the outcasts, misfits, and artists who surrounded her.

Author : Amanda Lee (Publisher)
Publisher : 5 Star Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0983247366

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Down Low Diva by Amanda Lee (Publisher) Pdf

Take a small town girl, and add Delicious Divas Escort Service to her mix…and you will get a Down Low Diva. Christina lets her hidden fantasies and skills take her on a vacation from the long time love of her life to a secret society where her every dream can come true. But she didn’t fulfill her sexual desires of endless nights of unlimited fun with sex toys and tantalizing fruits for money. Earning thousands of dollars for being tossed, banged, and licked was just the added bonus.All goes well with her new job until her best friend begins hating, her boss falls madly in love with her, and all of her clients want to keep her to themselves.If you think you can handle it, crack open the pages and see for yourself what the daily life of s Down Low Diva is really like!!!!!!

Author : Yolanda King Stephen,Yolando Stephen King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0983628513

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The Upside of the Down Low by Yolanda King Stephen,Yolando Stephen King Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226096674

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Sexual Discretion by Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. Pdf

African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are attracting increasing interest from both the general media and scholars. Commonly referred to as “down-low” or “DL” men, many continue to have relationships with girlfriends and wives who remain unaware of their same-sex desires, and in much of the media, DL men have been portrayed as carriers of HIV who spread the virus to black women. Sexual Discretion explores the DL phenomenon, offering refreshingly innovative analysis of the significance of media, space, and ideals of black masculinity in understanding down low communities. In Sexual Discretion, Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. provides the first in-depth examination of how the social expectations of black masculinity intersect and complicate expressions of same-sex affection and desire. Within these underground DL communities, men aren’t as highly policed—and thus are able to maintain their public roles as “properly masculine.” McCune draws from sources that range from R&B singer R. Kelly’s epic hip-hopera series Trapped in the Closet to Oprah's high-profile exposé on DL subculture; and from E. Lynn Harris’s contemporary sexual passing novels to McCune’s own interviews and ethnography in nightclubs and online chat rooms. Sexual Discretion details the causes, pressures, and negotiations driving men who rarely disclose their intimate secrets.

Author : Jane Ward
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479825172

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Not Gay by Jane Ward Pdf

A different look at heterosexuality in the twenty-first century A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight—her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: there’s fraternity and military hazing rituals, where new recruits are made to grab each other’s penises and stick fingers up their fellow members’ anuses; online personal ads, where straight men seek other straight men to masturbate with; and, last but not least, the long and clandestine history of straight men frequenting public restrooms for sexual encounters with other men. For Jane Ward, these sexual practices reveal a unique social space where straight white men can—and do—have sex with other straight white men; in fact, she argues, to do so reaffirms rather than challenges their gender and racial identity. Ward illustrates that sex between straight white men allows them to leverage whiteness and masculinity to authenticate their heterosexuality in the context of sex with men. By understanding their same-sex sexual practice as meaningless, accidental, or even necessary, straight white men can perform homosexual contact in heterosexual ways. These sex acts are not slippages into a queer way of being or expressions of a desired but unarticulated gay identity. Instead, Ward argues, they reveal the fluidity and complexity that characterizes all human sexual desire. In the end, Ward’s analysis offers a new way to think about heterosexuality—not as the opposite or absence of homosexuality, but as its own unique mode of engaging in homosexual sex, a mode characterized by pretense, dis-identification and racial and heterosexual privilege. Daring, insightful, and brimming with wit, Not Gay is a fascinating new take on the complexities of heterosexuality in the modern era.

Author : Pamela Samuels-Young
Publisher : Goldman House Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African American women lawyers
ISBN : 0981562701

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Murder on the Down Low by Pamela Samuels-Young Pdf

The third book in the Vernetta Henderson series!A high-profile lawsuit erupts into chaos, revealing its place in a larger spree of violence in this scandalous tale of lust, lies, and vengeance. A brazen gunman is targeting prominent African American men on the streets of Los Angeles, and police are completely baffled. At the same time, savvy big-firm attorney Vernetta Henderson and her outrageous sidekick, Special, lead the charge for revenge against a man whose deceit caused his fianceé's death. For Special, hauling the man into court and suing him for wrongful death just isn't good enough. While she exacts her own brand of justice, a shocking revelation connects the contentious lawsuit and the puzzling murders.