On the Down Low
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
A review of J.L. King's On the Down Low: A Journey Into the Lives of `Straight' Black Men Who Sleep With Men.
He says he wrote the book to expose a closeted culture of sex between black men who lead "straight" lives. He also wrote it to "come clean" about his own double life - 20 years spent having unprotected sex with men and women.
King says that black men who are on the down low, or the DL, are "not in the closet; they're behind the closet. They're so far removed from attaching themselves and what they do to the homosexual lifestyle that these men do not consider themselves gay."
Exposing the culture of the black gay man living a straight life