Hold Tight Gently (63 page)

    
and gay press,
75–76

    
lesbians and ACT-UP agenda,
85
,
189–90

    
and mainstream assimilationism,
x
,
82
,
239
,
256
,
263

    
organizational transformations of the 1970s,
10

    
and popular equation of homosexuality and disease,
14

    
racism within,
76
,
79–83
,
115–16
,
142
,
169–71
,
212–16

    
response to
Bowers
decision,
123–24

    
and self-empowerment,
90
,
92–93

    
See also
gay sexual liberation

Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD),
112–13
,
303

Gay Men with AIDS (GMWA),
67–68
,
90

Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC)

    
AIDS crisis response in NYC,
61–64

    
and AZT controversy,
160

    
Callen and safe-sex poster campaign,
63–64
,
93

    
Callen’s clashes with,
62–65
,
67
,
90
,
120
,
134
,
195

    
creation of,
50

    
and Hispanics,
90
,
93
,
119–20

    
and people of color,
90
,
119
,
120

    
and promiscuity issue,
62–65

    
and PWAs,
65
,
67
,
91

    
spreading panic of coming heterosexual epidemic,
57
,
95–96

Gay Music Guide
,
160

Gay Pride Day,
83
,
202

gay sexual liberation,
10
,
12
,
56
,
66
,
91–92
,
95
,
186
,
218

    
debate about separation of love and sex,
91–92

    
O Boys and group-based sexuality,
251–53

    
post-AIDS panic,
251–53
,
260–61

    
and promiscuity issue,
56–59
,
62–65
,
95
,
218–19

    
See also
gay liberation movement

Gay Student Alliance (University of Maryland),
27–28

gay-affirmative therapy,
284–85

Gaylord, Lisa,
8

General Motors (GM),
2
,
3

Gerald, Gil,
17
,
88–89
,
110
,
112
,
213
,
215

Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (Santa Monica),
117
,
244–46
,
262
,
291

Gilbert, Walter,
317n14

Gilliam, Dorothy,
37

Giovanni’s Room (Philadelphia gay bookstore),
75
,
110
,
114

Givnish, Gerry,
40

GLAAD,
184
,
202

Glide Memorial Church (San Francisco),
157

Glory Hole Church (San Francisco club),
220

GMAD (Gay Men of African Descent) (New York),
139
,
215

GMHC.
See
Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC)

Goldin, Frances,
xii
,
237
,
241
,
243–46
,
262
,
309n6
,
325n12

Goldsmith, Judy,
88–89

Gomez, Jewelle,
78
,
175
,
204

gonorrhea, rectal,
46
,
221

Gonsalves, Roy,
173

Goode, Wilson,
106

Goodstein, David,
57

Gottlieb, Michael,
145

Gould, Deborah,
188

Graham, Jim,
85
,
86
,
163–64

Gran Fury,
185

Grant, Lou,
194–95
,
196–97

Graselli, Diane,
278–79

Greater Mount Zion Missionary Church (Washington, D.C.),
86–87

Grega, Will,
160
,
203
,
319n10

GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency),
49–50
,
55

Grimes, Tammy,
60

Grossman, Steven,
52
,
157

group-based sexuality,
251–53

Hackett, Harley,
73–74

Haitian Coalition on AIDS,
55

Haitians,
55
,
56
,
71
,
153
,
235

Hamilton, Ohio,
1–4

Handy, John,
157

Hanks, Tom,
262
,
285–86

Hannan, Tom,
133

Hansberry, Lorraine,
207

Hardwick, Michael,
122–23

Hare, Nathan,
180
,
292

Harlem Renaissance (1920s),
30
,
32
,
141
,
167
,
172

Harlem Renaissance, second,
xi
,
32
,
141
,
172–75

Harpe, Charles,
177

Harrington, Mark,
130–31
,
195

Harris, Craig G.,
36
,
79
,
110
,
112–13
,
115
,
179
,
204

Hay, Harry,
253

Hay, Louise,
131–32
,
164

Hay House,
131–32

Helms, Jesse,
60

hemophiliacs,
55
,
56
,
71
,
95
,
122
,
149
,
201

Hemphill, Essex,
xi–xii
,
18–42
,
77–85
,
116–19
,
166–82
,
209–16
,
231–46
,
261–62
,
264–69
,
291–304

    
and ACT UP,
194
,
209
,
215

    
and AIDS crisis in black gay artistic community,
112
,
113–14
,
140
,
141–42
,
170
,
212–13
,
216

    
AIDS onset and symptoms,
112
,
140
,
234
,
245–46
,
261–62
,
264
,
297–301

    
attitudes toward his AIDS/handling AIDS,
291–93
,
300

    
and Beam,
76–77
,
107–12
,
142–43
,
166–69

    
Brother to Brother
anthology,
167–72
,
175–82
,
232–34
,
240–41
,
321n14

    
censorship challenges,
117–18

    
and Cinqué,
34–35
,
140

    
collaborations with Jones and Parkerson,
37–38
,
40
,
77–78
,
106–7
,
112
,
140–41
,
155

    
on coming out,
27
,
78–79
,
239

    
critique of Mapplethorpe,
169–71
,
239
,
240

    
and D.C.’s black gay and lesbian community,
17
,
28–42
,
79–85
,
112
,
140–42

    
at d.c. space,
77–78
,
140
,
155
,

    
employment and financial hardships,
111
,
116–17
,
119

    
at ENIKAlley coffeehouse,
35–37

    
Essence
article,
78–79
,
82

    
European trip and readings (1987),
118–19

    
final days and death,
300–304

    
and Frances Goldin Agency,
241
,
243
,
245
,
262

    
friendship with Wayson Jones,
26–28
,
32–35
,
38–42
,
140
,
296
,
299–300

    
friendship with Michelle Parkerson,
30
,
37
,
77
,
118
,
245

    
funeral service and alternate ceremony,
302–3

    
Getty Center residency,
117
,
244–46
,
262
,
291

    
grants,
116–17

    
influence on black gay community,
119
,
303

    
on interracial gay relationships,
207–8

    
and Kennedy Center screening of
Tongues Untied
,
206
,
209

    
In the Life
anthology,
76–77
,
109
,
167

    
love relationships,
107–9
,
299

    
and Million Man March,
209–11

    
mother, Mantalene,
18
,
22
,
241–43
,
268
,
302–3
,
309n6

    
national day of remembrance for,
303–4

    
and
Nethula Journal
,
30
,
33
,
37

    
and Parkerson,
30–32
,
37–38
,
40–42
,
77–78
,
106–7
,
112

    
personality,
xii
,
39–40
,
41
,
294

    
political work,
41–42
,
214–15

    
on racial identity/sexual identity,
17
,
29
,
111
,
142
,
207–16
,
239–40
,
295

    
religious faith,
298–99
,
302–3

    
responses to racism,
39–40
,
79–83
,
141–42
,
169–70
,
212–16

    
and “second Harlem Renaissance,”
xi
,
32
,
141
,
172–75

    
and sex,
77
,
140
,
296

    
at university,
26–27

    
Voicescapes
,
40
,
106–7
,
140–41

    
yearning for “home” (coming home),
171–72
,
179
,
211–14
,
215

    
and white gay movement,
80–81
,
240

Hemphill, Essex (home, family, and early life),
18–26
,
78–79

    
feelings of “differentness,”
20–21

    
grandmother, “Miss Emily,”
19

    
parents/family dynamics,
18–24
,
78–79
,
211

    
poetry-writing,
19–25

    
sexual exploration/first homosexual encounters,
25–26

    
violent father,
18
,
23–24