How Beyoncé Became a Black Man’s God

After years of feeling excluded by the megastar’s music, I finally converted to the Beyhive

Miles Marshall Lewis
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6 min readAug 3, 2020

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In a Brooklyn bar one night, a bestselling author called me a Beytheist. A Beyoncé atheist, a nonbeliever. The…

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Miles Marshall Lewis
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MML’s writing has appeared in GQ, The New York Times, Rolling Stone and many other outlets. His book on Dave Chappelle drops in 2024 from St. Martin’s Press.