Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence
By: Darius Bost
4.30
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Evidence of Being opens on a grim Washington DC’s gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AID…
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4.14
Format: 516 pages, Hardcover
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4.28
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11. Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence
By: Darius Bost
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Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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