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In the life : a black gay anthology / edited by Joseph Beam ; new introduction by James Earl Hardy.

LGBT Thought and Culture Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Beam, Joseph., Editor.
RedBone Press., Publisher.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American literature--African American authors.
American literature.
African American gay people--Literary collections.
African American gay people.
Gay men--Literary collections.
Gay men.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxv, 223 p.) : ill.
Edition:
2nd ed.
Place of Publication:
Washington, DC : RedBone Press, c2008.
Language Note:
In English.
Contents:
Stepping out
The boy with beer / Melvin Dixon
With my head held up high / Gilberto Gerald
Cut off from among their people
On not being white / Reginald Shepherd
Beautiful blackmen / Blackberri
Don't turn your back on me / Stephan Lee Dais
Cut off from among their people / Craig G. Harris
Creating community
Why a black gay church? / James S. Tinney, Ph.D.
A light that failed / James Charles Roberts
Sister Lesbos / Donald W. Woods
Brother/father/lover/son
Isn't it funny / Essex Hemphill
Better days / Essex Hemphill
Cordon Negro / Essex Hemphill
Discharge USN '63 / Oye Apeji Ajanaku
Protest poem / Brad Johnson
The buddy system / Brad Johnson
Getting your rocks off / Melvin Dixon
Serious moonlight / Essex Hemphill
Subway triology / Donald W. Woods
19 a poem about Kenny : portrait of a hard rock / Jerry Thompson
I want to love you / Craig A. Reynolds
The hitter / Brad Johnson
Weekend plans / Craig G. Harris
Etymology : a father's gift / Melvin Dixon
A father's need : a parent's desire / A. Billy S. Jones
When I stopped kissing my father / Philip Robinson
Color him father : an interview / Joseph Beam
A poem for Eric / Donald W. Woods
Speaking for ourselves
Emmett's story : Russell County, Alabama / Joseph Beam
Blackberri : singing for our lives / Bernard Branner
Samuel R. Delany : the possibility of possibilities / Samuel R. Delany and Joseph Beam
Bruce Nugent : bohemian of the Harlem renaissance / Charles Michael Smith
Stepping into tomorrow ...
For my own protection / Essex Hemphill
By the year 2000 / Max C. Smith
Brother to brother : words from the heart / Joseph Beam
Risin' to the love we need / Assotto Saint.
Notes:
Title from resource description page (viewed October 28, 2014).
Includes bibliographical references.
OCLC:
898083047

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