Keith Boykin: 'Beyond the Down Low'
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Keith Boykin in the studios of NPR West in Culver City, Calif.
NPR's Farai Chideya speaks with author Keith Boykin about his book Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America. "Down low" is the term used to describe black men who have sex with other men, but consider themselves heterosexual.
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