Notably, a seldom-conversed taboo in the African American community is non-heteronormative preferences and sexual fluidity. The rejection to explore the sexual spectrum of African-American identifying people may be in reason to the hypermasculinity that dominates the urban culture, including entertainment and hereditary advice. In specificity, medium of literature have been known to be consciously sensitive or relentlessly raw when dabbing in LGBTQ or comprehension of human sexuality. Celebrated authors such as Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Gwendolyn Brooks have challenged the heteronormativity in literature by writing controversial subject matter and socially conscious content that exposes the readers
