Michael Arceneaux

Michael Arceneaux is the author of the essay collections I Can’t Date Jesus and the forthcoming I Don’t Want to Die Poor.

Recent Articles

Why 'Real Life' Is a 'Devastatingly Effective' Debut

In Brandon Taylor’s highly-anticipated novel Real Life, protagonist Wallace — Southern, black and gay — has left behind his family and their fraught shared history to pursue graduate studies in biochemistry at a predominantly white...

By Michael Arceneaux

Black Gay Men Are Still Invisible

Whenever I read about this mythical place in which a person’s sexuality is no longer taboo, in the wake of a handful of states allowing marriage equality, I often think to check the balance of...

By Michael Arceneaux
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