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Kai Wright’s “Drifting Toward Love”
Book Review Kai Wright, Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York Beacon Press, Boston, 2008 ISBN 978-0-8070-7968-3 This is an important book. Why would I — a dead, white male, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Being gay, Black, Brown, Coming of Age on the Streets of New York, Drifting Toward Love, gay, growing up, homosexual, Kai Wright, Queer, Youth
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