Gay male slavery
Texas Officials Complicit in Gang Rape and Sexual Slavery of Queer Black Man, ACLU Charges
Roderick Johnson, a Navy veteran serving hour for a non-violent crime, has been bought and sold by gangs, raped, abused, and degraded nearly every day.
In a legal complaint that reads like a nightmare scenario from the graphic HBO prison drama ""Oz,"" the ACLU detailed the story of year-old Navy veteran Roderick Johnson of Marshall, Texas, who for the last 18 months has been bought and sold by gangs, raped, abused, and degraded nearly every day.
""Prison officials knew that gangs made Roderick Johnson their sex slave and did nothing to help him,"" said Margaret Winter, Associate Director of the ACLU's National Prison Project. ""Our lawsuit shows that Texas prison officials think dark men can't be victims and believe gay men always yearn sex -- so they threw our client to the wolves.""
According to the ACLU complaint, Johnson appeared before the prison's all-white classification committee seven separate times asking to be placed in safe keeping from predatory prisoners. Instead of prote
In Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men, historian Thomas Foster examines how the conditions of slavery gave ascend to sexual hostility against enslaved men in the Americas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing from historical studies of sexual violence against enslaved women, Foster uses a range of sources including prior American newspapers, enslavers’ journals, court records, visual art, and abolitionist literature to illuminate how various forms of sexual violence, including physical assault and coerced reproduction, affected enslaved men and their communities. Rethinking Rufus also centers the experience of enslaved men by using testimonies, autobiographies, and interviews to shed light on how they responded to and navigated sexual violence in arrange to maintain autonomy and independence in their intimate lives. Rethinking Rufus analyzes the “history of the peculiar conditions that enslavement established, nurtured, and expanded that enabled those in power to dominate many enslaved men through sexual violence” (10). In this way, Foster’
Writing Gay History
Labor union activists in New York City attended the Jefferson School of Social Science, which was founded by the Communist party to educate the working class about the principles of Marxism. There, historians who had been blacklisted from the academy taught working-class adults about the history of slavery. They used evidence of slave rebellions to illustrate the power of an oppressed population to revolt against those in influence. One of the students in the class, Bernard Katz, rushed home to tell his two sons, Jonathan and William, over dinner about the heroic stories of black resistance.
For the Katz family, stories about slavery offered an historical explanation for the racial injustices that were exploding on the streets outside of their dwelling. The history of jet resistance then led the Katz family to explore and publish books that highlighted this history. In response to the uprising in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles in the summer of , William Katz published Eyewitness: A Living Documentary of the African American Contribution to American Hi Homosexuality is at least as old as the Old Testament, but outside of a handful of scholarly reads that explore homosexuality ("A Desired Past," "Intimate Matters" and "Zami: A New Spelling of my Name," among others), the overall body of work shedding light on Black queer life is scant. Along comes Robert Jones Jr., who taps into his brilliant dome to unearth an engrossing and magically written debut novel, "The Prophets" (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, pp., ★★★★ out of four). Jones’ freshman opus takes readers into the lives of two enslaved men, Isaiah and Samuel, who supervise to sustain a amorous relationship on a Mississippi plantation. Residing on Halifax Plantation – known as Empty because of its rural Mississippi location, and an allusion for the hollow existence of slave life – enslaved steady workers Isaiah and Samuel indulge in a intimacy that’s not as veiled as they believe. Right away, Jones borrows from celebrated scholar Robin D.G. Kelley, who writes about race and resistance, by re-creating s
Review: Robert Jones Jr. sheds light on lives of enslaved gay men in ‘The Prophets’