Ebook {Epub PDF} Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South by E. Patrick Johnson

Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as backward or repressive and offers a window into the ways black gay men negotiate their identities, build community, maintain friendship ne/5. Working with other artists and writers, Johnson turned his staged reading, “Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales” into a full length play to fully capture the world of the men in Sweet Tea and to include his own story of growing up as a black gay southerner. #SWEET TEA BLACK GAY MEN OF THE SOUTH E PATRICK JOHNSON #Download file | read online This book is the stage version of E. Patrick Johnson’s Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History, a groundbreaking text for the fields of black studies, queer studies, and southern oral history and ethnography.

Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South. by E. Patrick Johnson. Directed by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj; lighting design, Curtis V. Hodge; sound, Matt Rowe. 90 minutes. Through Oct. 9 at Signature. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as "backward" or "repressive" and offers a window into the ways black gay men negotiate their identities, build community, maintain friendship networks, and find sexual and life partners--often in spaces and activities that appear to be antigay. E. Patrick Johnson (above) stars in "Making Sweet Tea," a minute film about life as an African American gay man in the southern United States. The film, which was co-produced and co-directed by Annenberg Dean John L. Jackson Jr. and Penn doctoral student Nora Gross, is based on a book Johnson wrote, which then became a play.

Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History is a ethnographic oral history of the lives of Black gay men in the Southern United States by scholar and performer E. Patrick Johnson, who himself grew up in rural North Carolina, and is openly gay. Sweet Tea received a Stonewall Book Award, for Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction, from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association. Lambda Literary Foundation noted the book. E. Patrick is a dynamic performer and scholar. In this production adapted from his book "Sweet Tea", Patrick performs the stories of 13 men, ranging from Working with other artists and writers, Johnson turned his staged reading, “Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales” into a full length play to fully capture the world of the men in Sweet Tea and to include his own story of growing up as a black gay southerner.