Artist explains gay experience
By Meg Dedolph
t >'d Reporter
Basketball plovers, drag
queans, jazz music ians and a
great-grandmother, among nth
its. dance through the pages of
Is sex Hemphill's writing,
through which he tries to ev
plain tile exponent e of being a
blac k gav man in Americ a
Hemphill, the "Artist in Res
idenoe'' for Martin I.other King
)r week, will lie mart hmg in a
ralh Saturday and appearing at
the Hull Center at 7 It) p m
Monday
Hemphill's work — which,
when dealing with sexuality, is
sometimes graphic — is often
stereotyped as "X-rated." he
said Hemphill said stereotyp
ing is a risk for any writer from
the lesbian, gay or bisexual
community, espec ially when
the work is exposed to others
outside the group.
"When the work is beginning
to be dealt with outside the
community." Hemphill said.
k
those who ire uncomfortable
with the community's existent e
already are going to find strain
gies to collapse the signifit am e
of that work
(iritii ism like tins does not
affect Hemphill, who said he
tries not to take it seriously for
fear he would not accomplish
the work fie wanted to tin
"I tend to let commentary
like that roll.” he said, he
cause I know what I'm doing
and that's what's the most im
portant at the end of the day.
that von lie dear about what
the intents of your work are
I think if I wasn't pigeon
holed. or if people were not try
mg to pigeonhole me he« ause
of sex or sexuality, it would he
because of r.u eHemphill
said
If tiie sexual references were
removed from his works, lie
said. We'd still have to con
tend with the other issues the
issues of race, the issues ot mi
sogyny. sexism in six irty and
some of the < lass issues that my
J
i
7 think if I wasn't
pigeonholed, or if
people were not
trying to
pigeonhole me
because of sex or
sexuality, it would
be because of
race.’
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