Closets are for Clothes: Being LGBT in Black America
Juan Battle is a professor of Sociology, Public Health, & Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He currently heads the Social Justice Sexuality Initiative, a project exploring the lived experiences of Black, Latina/o, and Asian lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the United States and Puerto Rico. He is a Fulbright Senior Specialist, was the recent Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Gender Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and is an Affiliate Faculty of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Battle has coedited three books: The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration, Black Sexualities and Free At Last?: Black America in the Twenty-First Century.