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Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low Black & African American Science Fiction and heal after being releasedSince the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the "down low" black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual has exploded in news media and popular culture, from the Oprah Winfrey Show to R & B singer R. Kelly's hip hopera Trapped in the Closet. Most down low stories are morality tales in which black men are either predators who risk infecting their unsuspecting female partners with HIV or victims of a