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In the life : a Black gay anthology

Title
In the life : a Black gay anthology / edited by Joseph Beam ; new introduction by James Earl Hardy.
Publication
  • Washington, DC : RedBone Press, [2008]
  • ©2008

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Additional Authors
  • Beam, Joseph
  • Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry. WU
Description
xxv, 223 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
These authors explore what it means to be doubly different--both black and gay--in modern America.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Literary collections.
  • Literature.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Call Number
Sc D 15-1505
ISBN
  • 9780978625122
  • 0978625129
LCCN
2010525384
OCLC
148795762
Title
In the life : a Black gay anthology / edited by Joseph Beam ; new introduction by James Earl Hardy.
Publisher
Washington, DC : RedBone Press, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
Edition
2nd edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Beam, Joseph, editor.
Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry. WU
Research Call Number
Sc D 15-1505
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