Honey, Honey, Miss Thang

by Leon E. Pettiway

Book Overview

Many straight Americans would never embrace homosexuals as neighbors, co-workers, or friends. Still less would they accept as equals those transgendered individuals who work the streets to provide themselves with drug money.

This book seeks to change that perception. It celebrates the lives of Shontae, China, Keisha, Detra, and Monique, five Afro-American gay hustlers who struggle to survive and to maintain a life of dignity and value in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156639497X
• ISBN13: 9781566394970
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

powerful

i grew up in a small southern town that was fantastically inhabited by what seemed an inordinate number of flamboyant black drag queens. as a child i marveled at their screaming visibility, and always kept one eye peeled for a glimpse of a sashaying stormy or randy ball or any of the other girls, now long dead. as a grown woman (gay, incidentally) living in a much larger, but still southern city, i remain fascinated by the miss thangs that i encounter in clubs and on street corners. this book is a raw and unflinching peek into the lives of five ordinarily extraordinary queens, who live their scarred and often dismaying lives with an amazing lack of self-pity and an equally amazing joie de vivre. i recommend!