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August 16, 2004

Apparently, He Doesn't Have that Telltale Lisp

by Ron Hogan

Salon gets into it with J.L. King, who "might not look gay, talk gay or act gay--but he does have sex with men." Mind you, I know what reporter Whitney Joiner means by the first half of that remark, but I'm still tempted to ask, well, what exactly does s/he mean? How do you "talk gay," anyhow? King's On the Down Low doesn't answer that question, but it does give African-American women a crash course on how to catch their boyfriends and husbands having sex with other guys.

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