Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.65 (597 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807079685 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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His work focuses on the politics of sex and race, particularly as they impact public health. He contributes to leading independent and community-based media including The Progressive, Mother Jones, and Real Health magazines, and has written for publications ranging from Essence magazine to the Village Voice. He is also publications editor for the Black AIDS Institute and author of two previous books on African American history. Kai Wright is a writer and editor living
Drifting Toward Love tells the stories of Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color desperately searching for life's basic necessities: homes that provide more than shelter and security against more than violence or disease. His writing has appeared in Essence, Mother Jones, The Progressive, and the Village Voice. Julius's story, meanwhile, is a classic New York tale: a young, dynamic gay man flees his rural home, seeking freedom in the big city. By the end, a powerful and sometimes troubling story has unfurled that offers a unique and vital snapshot of the often overlooked lives of young people like Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends. In Drifting Toward Love, Wright tells these stories and more, weaving in years of reporting on the broader social, economic, and political dynamics that box in gay men of color as they come into their own. With no one to help guide his journey in New York, however, Julius never finds his footing, tumbling rapidly through homelessness, hustling, and drug abuse. As these teenagers navigate the rocky waters of adolescence, they wade through pains and passions that are typical of any young person coming of age. Kai Wright is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, New York. He gradually confesses that his primary goal remains elusive: discovering love, and holding on to it. In the process, he and best friend Jason move from a budding love based on videogames and music to
drifting toward love: black,brown,gay this book was a good read i learn a lots like high hate crime is upstate and all around.. "A must read" according to Ivan Figueroa. Inspiring, a treasure, read it and tell your friendsKai and his "collaborators" keep it realin keeping it real the human experience is mirrored vividly. Liked It So. Calif book reader While I really enjoyed the book, all the time I was reading it, I was trying to figure out exactly who the book was directed at-the readership. I'm still not sure why the book was written. But it was interesting reading about these young guys lives, yet even as the book ended, there was no conclusion to anything. If this is any
From Publishers Weekly Journalist Wright (Soldiers of Freedom) evokes the passage to gay identity for three young men of color in this impressionistic, often disjointed account. The narrative juxtaposes vignettes from the lives—particularly the sexual lives—of Manny, a 14-year-old Brooklynite of Puerto Rican and Jamaican heritage who had leadership skills so natural he was all but unable to control them; Julius, a 22-year-old African-American transplanted from north Florida to New York who is equally capable of stunning achievement and devastating self-destruction; and Carlos, a 25-year-old Puerto Rican who is a caretaker by nature. . These are gracefully written, sympathetic profiles, but they are only loosely tied toget