CHAPTER NINE

The Negro In Homosexual Society

RANKLYN M. WAS A TALL, slim-waisted,

F very dark-skinned Negro. His even teethshowed
through a broad smile as I entered his lower West
side apartment on the third floor of a converted
brownstone. Geographically, he was only a 15-
minute subway ride from the Harlem in which he
was born. Sociologically, he was separated by space

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