My name is Priscilla Wilson. I am an African American graduate student at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. I am conducting a research study on African American men WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST on the DL, or African American men who identify as men who sleep with men (MSM). The purposes of the study are:

1. To gain first-hand knowledge and information about the down low or MSM from the point-of-view of African American men.
2. To give African American DL men or MSM an opportunity to discuss and clarify the many factors (truth and fictitious) that surround the DL men or MSM
3. To determine the positive and negative impact being on the Down Low has on African American men.
4. To examine African American men and women's attitudes about same-sex relationships and determine how these beliefs contribute to men being on the down low.

This study will give African American men a voice to discuss the everyday struggles they experience in an environment where your privacy will be safeguarded. Participants will be interviewed by phone on audiotape and will be asked to give a pseudonym to protect your privacy. There are limited avenues where men can talk about what they are going through. This study at a major university will discuss African American DL and MSM and how society, religion, family, and the pressures African American men encounter pertaining to their sexual identity to may contribute to living on the DL.

If you are interested in the study, please click the link on the art panel above where you will find a permission/informed consent form, which explains the study in further detail and gives you an opportunity to consent or refuse to participate, along with other instructions. Participation in this study is voluntary.

Thank you for your time.

Priscilla Wilson Student, University of Alabama