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Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity.(Book review)
SPIRITED: AFFIRMING THE SOUL AND BLACK GAY/LESBIAN IDENTITY
Edited by G. Winston James and Lisa C. Moore
RedBone Press, 2006
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IN A SOCIETY WHERE EVERYONE IS USUALLY ASSUMED to be heterosexual, it's natural that introspection would come with awakening to your queer identity. In this exciting collection of essays, readers walk alongside Black queers as they recount their paths to self-love in the context of religion and spirituality.
For those who have been told that homosexuality is "an abomination before God" in the Black churches of their youth, it's refreshing that Spirited features the first-person ...
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