Nightstand

“Historian Kevin Mumford provides an extensively researched and thoroughly readable account of the activism and culture-making of mid-to-late-20th-century black gay men. The book refutes the tendency to pathologize African-American cultures for purportedly harboring a more pronounced homophobia or misogyny than can be found among white Americans. It also challenges accompanying presumptions that LGBT African-Americans were marginal in racial liberation movements.”