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He’s done admirable good for Black gay organizations and publicly atoned for the misinformation his personal testimony led to; but the archetype he embodied remains a boogeyman in the heterosexual psyche, and, sadly, a role model for some Black gay men.
Disrespecting Self, Abdicating Power
Concealing the truth about one’s identity was long the default setting for homosexuality, although we are hardly the only minority in which some can strategically downplay membership to escape majoritarian judgment or wrath.
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Hyped as an existential plague for Black America, the down-low has always been, and stubbornly remains, a stylized closet.
The inclusion of “on the down-low” in songs by R. Kelly and TLC gave it sexual connotations in the ‘90s, and “DL” was among the earliest shorthands when arranging covert liaisons in the new world of internet dating.
“While white gay and bisexual men were granted victimhood in the narrative about their lives in the closet, any Black gay man who was not upfront about his sexual orientation suddenly became an AIDS superspreader lying in wait — a pathology whose taint soon splashed onto Black openly gay men, and ultimately Black men altogether.”
While plenty of Black gay and bisexual men described themselves as DL in their online profiles to indicate they were not out of the closet, the casual term underwent a formal redefinition in an August 2003 article in the New York Times Magazine.
Much has been made about Black women’s unwillingness to date a man who has had any sexual encounter with another man (let alone a fully bisexual man), but gay men would be just as quick to call a man a queen if we learned of the slightest sexual experimentation.
There is no Kinsey scale for Black men, no difference in how the twos and sixes are perceived or treated.
However, grown men silencing their truth is unlikely to lead them to satisfaction, nor protect those who are more vulnerable. I thought of DL men while watching the recent viral video of a young Black boy being abused by a group of family members for being effeminate, and imagined how a gay man who takes pride in inhabiting such hetero-aggressive spaces might’ve been able to expand the adults’ understanding of who gay people are, and who gay children can become.
That would be a far more genuine flex of masculine prowess than indulging in DL cosplay on social media.
Ryan Lee
Ryan Lee is a freelance writer in Atlanta and a columnist for The Georgia Voice, which focuses on LGBTQ issues in the south.