Marlon M Bailey
Arizona State University, School of Social Transformation, Faculty Member
- Marlon M. Bailey is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation at ASU.... moreMarlon M. Bailey is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation at ASU. He is the author of __Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance and Ballroom Culture in Detroit__. In 2014, __Butch Queens Up in Pumps__ won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize in LGBT studies from the GL/Q Caucus at the MLA. Bailey is a Black queer and cultural theorist, an HIV/AIDS prevention scholar/activist, and a performing artist. He earned a PhD/MA in African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA in Theatre from West Virginia University.(Marlon M. Bailey is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation at ASU. He is the author of __Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance and Ballroom Culture in Detroit__. In 2014, __Butch Queens Up in Pumps__ won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize in LGBT studies from the GL/Q Caucus at the MLA. Bailey is a Black queer and cultural theorist, an HIV/AIDS prevention scholar/activist, and a performing artist. He earned a PhD/MA in African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA in Theatre from West Virginia University.)edit
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Black men who have sex with men (MSM) have the highest incidence of new HIV diagnoses compared to other populations and face multiple stigmas. Some have found refuge in the House Ball Community (HBC)—a national network of Black lesbian,... more
Black men who have sex with men (MSM) have the highest incidence of new HIV diagnoses compared to other populations and face multiple stigmas. Some have found refuge in the House Ball Community (HBC)—a national network of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) kinship commitments (families) that affirm gender expression(s) and sexualities and provide skills-building for its members. Internal and external socioemotional assets influence the health of young Black sexual and gender minorities; building these assets in the HBC is critical to facilitating engagement in health-promoting behaviors. To address this critical gap in HIV prevention, we describe an adaptation of 3MV, a best-evidence, group-level retreat-based risk reduction intervention developed for HIV-negative Black MSM. Clinicians, researchers, HBC members/leaders, and community experts collaborated to adapt 3MV for the HBC. Our Family, Our Voices (OFOV) is an HIV status-neutral, risk-reduction intervention th...
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The House Ball Community, made up of houses and the elaborate balls that they organize and perform in, exists in a number of cities across the United States. These social activities and alliances represent safe spaces for young (gay,... more
The House Ball Community, made up of houses and the elaborate balls that they organize and perform in, exists in a number of cities across the United States. These social activities and alliances represent safe spaces for young (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people) to give and receive affirmation for non-heteronormative gender and sexual identities. Recent funding for HIV prevention activities, in conjunction with a policy of test and treat, has led to departments of health and community-based organizations supporting balls as a way to capture young men who have sex with men of color and transgender women of color in particular for HIV testing and case detection. We discuss the importance of the social structures underpinning the elaborate cultural practices of the House Ball Community, their implications for providing support for HIV prevention and treatment for community members, and suggestions for future research with the House Ball Community.
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KC Prestige, a butch queen (a gay man) and member of the Legendary House of Prestige’s Detroit Chapter at the time, attended the Xstacy Ball in Chicago, along with Prestige members from the Richmond, Cleveland, and Philadelphia chapters... more
KC Prestige, a butch queen (a gay man) and member of the Legendary House of Prestige’s Detroit Chapter at the time, attended the Xstacy Ball in Chicago, along with Prestige members from the Richmond, Cleveland, and Philadelphia chapters during the July 4th holiday in 2003. At 3 a.m. the venue where the Xstacy Ball was held was shut down, and the continuation of the ball was moved to an after-hours spot. When KC and his fellow house members stopped at a gas station on the south side of Chicago to pump gas, Prestige was approached by two men, one of whom hit him in the face and knocked him unconscious. Luckily for KC, his fellow house members, Rico Prestige and Father Alvernian, were at the gas station as well and came to his rescue. 1 Rico fought the men, apparently while KC was unconscious, and one of them pistol-whipped him. Soon after, Father Alvernian grabbed a bat from Jaylen Prestige’s car and hit one of the assailants in the head. The two men ran off, but they took KC’s watch, necklace, T-shirt, and earrings, and a diamond ring from another Prestigemember. This incident could have happened to anyone regardless of who they are or how they are interpellated. However, throughout my nearly ten years of research within ballroom communities and based on my own experiences growing up in Detroit, Michigan, I have learned that incidents similar to the one KC Prestige described are common for Black lesbian/
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Given the ways that the exercise of racism and the ideology of black inferiority have depended upon entrenched images of black hypersexuality, it may be unsurprising that representations of intracommunal sexual fetishization and... more
Given the ways that the exercise of racism and the ideology of black inferiority have depended upon entrenched images of black hypersexuality, it may be unsurprising that representations of intracommunal sexual fetishization and performance obscure the presence of racism. Nonetheless, such representations can also lead us to misinterpret how racial subordination is inculcated, negotiated, and challenged within the black community. The many responses to Karrine Steffans, her book Confessions of a Video Vixen, and the new cultural figure she represents (the video vixen, model, ‘jump off’, ‘groupie’, or ‘ho’) reveal the multiple investments in the representation of black women, and by extension, black men and their sexualities. Blake argues that although dominant discourses would lay blame for the circulation of misogynist images at the doorstep of the black community, understanding the formation of such a figure requires a far more complex reading. In addition to addressing the contemporary exercise of gendered racism, intracommunal discussions and debates about black sexuality (inspired by the video vixen) show that black popular culture can create new discursive spaces. Sometimes it also exposes intracommunal negotiations over the effects of racial subordination, the contemporary meanings of racial community, and the politics of black hypersexuality.
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Abstract:This GLQ forum celebrates the twentieth-anniversary publication of Cathy Cohen's "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?" The forum opens with Cohen's reflection on the... more
Abstract:This GLQ forum celebrates the twentieth-anniversary publication of Cathy Cohen's "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?" The forum opens with Cohen's reflection on the article she wrote twenty years ago. Other authors in the forum then ruminate on such topics as the potential erasure of the queer political history that the original article provoked readers to consider in the time during and since its printing, the haunting answer to the original article's haunting subtitular question—"the radical potential of queer politics?," and new political alliances that might fit under the rubric of queer in our contemporary moment.
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This essay engages Evelyn Higginbotham’s article, “African American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race,” in which she challenges approaches to studying black women’s lives and culture in the fields of history and women’s... more
This essay engages Evelyn Higginbotham’s article, “African American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race,” in which she challenges approaches to studying black women’s lives and culture in the fields of history and women’s studies. Likewise, our essay examines the usefulness and implications of Higginbotham’s theory for black sexuality studies and queer-of-color critiques. Thus, we suggest that antiblack racism functions as a metalanguage of sexuality, both in its structural constraints and in the way black communities respond to them. Paying close attention to interdisciplinary and intersectional knowledges, we push beyond cisgender and heteronormative formulations of Higginbotham’s work to theorize a metalanguage of sexuality and its significance for black communities.
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A 2013 study among 169 Indiana men aged 18-45 who have sex with men assessed the acceptability of and preferences for pharmacy-based and over-the-counter (OTC) HIV testing. Rural men in general and men who did not know their HIV status... more
A 2013 study among 169 Indiana men aged 18-45 who have sex with men assessed the acceptability of and preferences for pharmacy-based and over-the-counter (OTC) HIV testing. Rural men in general and men who did not know their HIV status were more likely to purchase an OTC HIV test. Men who did not know their HIV status also preferred an OTC HIV test to pharmacy-based testing. Pharmacies should enhance information around the sale of OTC HIV tests, particularly in rural areas. Information should include test results, opportunities for consultation, and linkage to care.
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Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Sociology, Social Work, Life Sciences, Social Support, and 15 morePublic Health, Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Prevention, Kinship, Social Structure, Clinical research, Biomedical Research, African American, HIV Prevention, Informal Communication, Hiv Aids, San Francisco Bay, Family Structure, and Community Based Organization
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The articles in part 2 of the themed section Gender and Sexual Geographies of Blackness focus on the creation of new cartographies of resistance, struggle, and survival in which black gender and sexual minority communities are engaged.... more
The articles in part 2 of the themed section Gender and Sexual Geographies of Blackness focus on the creation of new cartographies of resistance, struggle, and survival in which black gender and sexual minority communities are engaged. Using black feminist readings of gender, sexuality, and geography as a point of departure, we consider the complex challenges that black gender and sexual minorities pose to conventional feminists and queer readings of space. These articles map unexplored sites of black struggle, resistance, and survival where black gender and sexual minorities confront marginalization and create new spaces of sociality, community, desire, pleasure, support, and love.
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