Blacks and gays in D.C.: It’s complicated

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When I met Carlene Cheatham, I considered her then, as I do now, a dynamic black woman. A year later, I learned she was a lesbian.

Other African Americans made that disclosure, using coded language common when heterosexuals discuss homosexuals.

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