On the Down Low: A Journey Into the Lives of “Straight” Black Men Who Sleep With Men

By S. Gaskins. 2005

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“Being Masculine is not About who you Sleep with...:” Heterosexual Athletes Contesting Masculinity and the One-time Rule of Homosexuality (2008, background): “This is something King (2004) and Boykin (2005) describe among African American men who have sex with men as being “on the down low,” and it might explain why recent quantitative research on teamsport athletes finds less than 4% have engaged in same-sex sex (Southall et al. 2006).”
Seeing and being seen: Co-situation and impression formation using Grindr, a location-aware gay dating app (2015, background): “While broader acceptance of homosexuality has reduced concerns about stigma (Hirshman, 2012), some may none-theless fear negative consequences from being perceived as gay (King, 2005) or as a “slut” (e.g., Conley, 2011).”
Dude-Sex: White Masculinities and `Authentic' Heterosexuality Among Dudes Who Have Sex With Dudes (2008, background): “To make sense of the factors that would prevent men of color from being ‘honest’ about their ‘real’ lives and desires, analyses of MSMs have drawn heavily on theories of the closet and its racialized underpinnings (Boykin, 2005; Hill Collins, 2004; King, 2004).”