id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7994 Black lesbian literature in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 2039 353 55 Through this critical analysis, black lesbian writers and activists were able to use the genre to make necessary interventions in the normative ideologies regarding race, gender, and sexuality which emerged from these larger political movements.[2] Writer and activist Cheryl Clarke wrote essays like "The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community"[3] and "Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance"[4] which both explore the way that white male patriarchy and white supremacy create the gendered and racialized forms of homophobia that black lesbians experience.[citation needed] In 1977 the self-proclaimed activist group of black feminists and lesbians known as The Combahee River Collective published a statement in which they outlined their main political objectives to fight racism, sexism, homophobia, and class oppression simultaneously. LGBT themes in speculative fiction (includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature) List of LGBT-themed speculative fiction (includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender themed speculative fiction) Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Writing. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender fiction Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) topics ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7994.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7994.txt