“…Lisa Bowleg, Stephanie Cook, and others have championed the need to consider the diversity among sexual identities, experiences, and orientations of Black men ( Bowleg, 2013 ; Bowleg et al, 2016 ; Bowleg et al, 2013 ; Cook, Watkins, Calebs, & Wilson, 2016 ; Wilson et al, 2016 ). This work has been critical in highlighting how the intersection of these identities further complicates the categories or identities that remain marginalized and invisible, and how men embody gender in the context of dynamic cultural ideals and social structures in ways that create new configurations of practice, in particular, local situations and contexts, whereby diverse groups of men are negotiating different ways of being their own gendered selves ( Lusher & Robins, 2009 ).…”