In African American Homosocial Studies, Quil Lemons deepens the inquiries first explored in his 2023 solo exhibition Quiladelphia, presenting an expanded body of work that examines the intersections of kinship, eroticism, and intimacy within Black masculine life. Through a series of tender, unguarded portraits, Lemons brings together two interwoven constellations of care: his queer chosen family and the men of his biological lineage. Shot with the warmth and immediacy that defines his practice, the images in African American Homosocial Studies invite viewers into a space where affection, vulnerability, and erotic charge coexist. Lemons captures his friends—many of whom are artists, lovers, and collaborators—with the same reverence and intimacy that he brings to his depictions of uncles, cousins, and brothers. In doing so, he dissolves the boundary between chosen and blood family, proposing a vision of Black homosociality rooted in love, trust, and radical softness. This series is both a continuation and a deepening: a meditation on how Black masculinity is shaped not only through culture and performance, but through networks of care that resist domination and celebrate self-actualization. Lemons reflects on his own evolving relationship to gender, queerness, and belonging, revealing how the embrace of his community—both inherited and assembled—has sustained and shaped him. At the heart of African American Homosocial Studies is a desire to rewrite the visual language of Black male intimacy. Each subject is honored for their singular interiority, captured not as archetypes but as whole, complex beings. Through his lens, Lemons offers and receives a shared sense of self-acceptance, crafting images that are at once personal and communal, celebratory and subversive. In this work, Lemons continues to blur the boundaries between the personal and the political, the erotic and the familial. By integrating his queer family with his biological one, he asserts that both are foundational, both are sacred—and that Black queer life contains multitudes that cannot be separated.