In Search of My Queer Fathers (In Response to Bishop Eddie Long)

In Search of My Queer Fathers (In Response to Bishop Eddie Long)

This poetic meditation engages homosexuality as pathology and inherited “disease” as propagated by some factions of the Black church. Reinterpreting the notion of genealogical “inheritance” the author pays tribute to his queer ancestors, tracing a legacy of racial and sexual struggle and how the two...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cultural studies, critical methodologies critical methodologies, 2014-04, Vol.14 (2), p.124-127
1. Verfasser: Johnson, E. Patrick
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Clergy
Cultural studies
Diseases
Fathers
Homophobia
Homosexuality
Inheritance and Succession
Queer theory
Sexuality
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Zusammenfassung:This poetic meditation engages homosexuality as pathology and inherited “disease” as propagated by some factions of the Black church. Reinterpreting the notion of genealogical “inheritance” the author pays tribute to his queer ancestors, tracing a legacy of racial and sexual struggle and how the two are imbricated. At the same time, the meditation points to the hypocrisy of Black clergy who always already carry within them a part of the Black queer.
ISSN:1532-7086
1552-356X
DOI:10.1177/1532708613512266