How do gay Black men survive life in Dublin, Ga., Jasper, Texas, Hickory, N.C. and other places big and small in America’s South? The answers to this and other questions asked of 70 gay, African American men living in the South by a Northwestern University professor are the basis of Sweet Tea, a dramatic reading Saturday, Oct. 21. Free and open to the public, Sweet Tea will be performed at 8 p.m. in the Wallis Theatre in Northwestern’s Theatre and Interpretation Center, 1949 Campus Drive, Evanston campus.
Sweet Tea is based on a book about gay Black life in the South. The book by E. Patrick Johnson, also titled Sweet Tea, will be published by University of North Carolina Press.Johnson’s dramatic reading will be the final event of a free, one-day Black Performance Studies symposium featuring speakers on topics from African theatre to African American feminism.
Call (847) 491-3171. For a complete schedule of the symposium, visit the www.communication.northwestern.edu/performancestudies/news/blackperformance/.