“Unfiltered and Unapologetic: Discover the Provocative Journey of a Queer Black Voice in Brathwaite’s ‘Rage’!”
“For some reason, I thought gay men would be beyond the whole ‘masculinity’ thing because, well, taking a dick is perhaps the most effeminate thing a man could realistically do…. But I’ve never successfully bottomed, so I can’t tell you what it feels like. Not for lack of trying, by the way. When I first attempted to have sex, I assumed I would be a bottom because… she is me. I am she. Sissies aren’t tops. But penetrating me was like trying to get into Fort Knox—it involved tools, methods, and skills very few men possess. So I became a top out of necessity. I always told myself, and anyone who’d listen, that I’d one day be vers [i.e., both top and bottom], just as soon as I found someone I was comfortable enough with to pop my proverbial cherry. Nearly two decades later, here I am. Still unpopped.”
