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DISSECTING THE DOWN LOW

Michael Roberson, People of Color in Crisis

Frank Roberts, NYU

Prevention Justice Seminar

October 25, 2004

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Michael Roberson is the Director of Services at People of Color in Crisis, Inc.. He has several years of experience in the implementation of HIV programming, outreach and the Many Men, Many Voices model.
Frank Roberts is editor of Brownstones Magazine and the author of “For colored boys who’ve considered the ‘down low’ when the Rainbow’s not Enuf”




Recommended Readings
Dissecting the Down Low



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I. The Low Down on the Down Low, by Sheryl Johnson
www.thebody.com/asp/janfeb04/down_low.html

II. Sex, Lies, Death. In Village Voice.
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0432/coates.php

III. Double Lives on the Down Low. Denizet-Lewis, B. In The New York Times, August 3rd 2003, Late Edition – Final.

IV. HIV Positive, Without A Clue, by Jose Antonio Vargas. In The Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A16957-2003Aug3¬Found=true

V. The Demons Behind the Down Low, by Tomika Anderson
www.poz.com/index.cfm?p=article&art_id=3469

VI. Black Men who have sex with Men and the HIV Epidemic: Next Steps for Public Health. Malebranche, D.J. In American Journal of Public Health, June 2003, Vol. 93, No. 6.
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