This article details intersectional social movement storytelling produced by a racially mixed group of gay men in the 1980s to articulate, and insist upon, antiracist gay liberation. Based on a larger project of narrative ethnography of the organization Black and White Men Together (BWMT), I describe how BWMT drew upon the movement story of an ideal community from the civil rights movement (Beloved Community) and re-storied it to confront a narrow gay movement and reassert an anti-racist gay liberation critique. I trace how they did so via storytelling strategies using (1) “salience work” and (2) what I call “both/and work”— interpretive processes operating to shift the symbolic code of integration and the emotional code of love to be relevant in the complex political context of the 1980s. I conclude by reiterating how these strategies are bound to their times and assert the potential of social movement storytelling for intersectional scholarship.

本文详细介绍了1980年代由一个种族混合的同性恋者群体进行的社交活动交往叙事，以表达并坚持反对种族主义的同性恋解放。基于黑人和白人在一起组织（BWMT）的较大的叙事民族志项目，我描述了BWMT如何借鉴民权运动（心爱的社区）理想社区的运动故事，并将其重新存储起来以应对缩小同性恋运动范围，并重申反对种族主义的同性恋解放批评。我使用（1）“显着工作”和（2）我所说的“两者兼有”来通过讲故事的策略来追踪他们是如何做到的—解释过程使整合的象征性代码和爱情的情感性代码相互关联在1980年代复杂的政治环境中。