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"Darius Stewart spent his childhood in the Lonsdale projects of Knoxville, where he grew up navigating school, friendship, and his own family life in a context that often felt perilous. As we learn about his life in Tennessee, Texas, and Iowa, he details the obstacles to his most crucial desires: hiding his earliest attraction to boys in his neighborhood, doomed affairs, his struggles with alcohol addiction, and his eventual diagnosis with HIV. A mix of memoir, surreal reveries, and startling imagery, Be Not Afraid of My Body is a compelling testament to growing up Black and gay in America, and to the drive in all of us to collect the fragments of experience and transform them into a story that captures all the multitudes we contain"-- Page 4 of cover. |
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Stewart, Darius.
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African American gay men -- Biography.
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African American men -- Biography.
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Poets, American -- Biography.
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HIV-positive men -- Biography.
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Gay men -- Identity.
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9781953368904 (paperback) |
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1953368905 (paperback) |
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