{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-new-masculine.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fcary-alan-johnson-son-queer-man-black-HnALEtWk","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Cary Alan Johnson- Son, Queer Man, Black","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/5a1472e1-21e8-4cf4-8e74-f4d9bd572e39/248f7481-7d78-4070-9b59-3a760db58ef3/pink-gorilla-2.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/d7f9644a-5e0e-455f-bbb5-294cd4645dc9\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Cary Alan Johnson- Son, Queer Man, Black\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"On this episode, Travis talks with the author, activist, public health and HIV specialist, and Africanist Cary Alan Johnson. In his new novel, Desire Lines, Cary shares a journey through gay New York in the 1980s—the sex, the drugs, and the trauma of AIDS—from the fresh perspective of a young Black man coming of age. While this is a fictional story, the lines are often blurred between the narrator of the story and Cary himself. His hope is for the book to humanize a generation of men who were often seen as less human in the eyes of many. Topics discussed include: Reprocessing trauma, cultural trauma, his work in Africa, being black and gay during the AIDS crisis, how estrangement effects a person's development, gay men's relationships to masculinity, sexual shame, and desire lines."}