The gentility and acts of politeness and complicity of silence around taboo issues in southern tradition often take precedence over one’s individual need to name that identity or flaunt that transgression.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 15, 2009.
In this lecture and performance, writer E. Patrick Johnson provides a glimpse into the lives of subjects from his book Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South (2008). Johnson subverts countless preconceptions of black gay subcultures thriving in just about every imaginable rural and religious milieu in the South. He also relates his research process for the book and his interpretation of its true stories.
