In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology Lerary Nonfictn. Fictn. Poetry. Essays. Ain Amerin Studi. LGBT Studi. In IN THE LIFE, 29 black thors explore what means to be doubly different—both black and gay— morn Ameri. The stori, vers, works of art and theater piece...
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In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology: 9780978625122: Beam, Joseph: Books * in the life a black gay anthology *
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“The bottom le is this: We are Black men who are proudly gay.
Eded by Joseph Beam, this groundbreakg anthology was the first of s kd to brg together the wrgs of Black gay men. Through this llectn, a whole generatn of Black gay thkers, artists, and wrers me together to shape the horizon of their own world.
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Black gay men where both visible the mastream Whe queer spac and often only begdggly tolerated normative Black heterosexual social settgs.
This llectn was the begng of a new non lerature by gay men of Ain scent. A world which Black gay men were centered, were of immense value, and whose liv and lsons were valuable for to know. In IN THE LIFE, 29 black thors explore what means to be doubly different—both black and gay— morn Ameri.
They n be poignant, erotic, rolute, or angry, but always reflect the affirmg power of g together to build a strong black gay muny. In the troductn to the origal 1986 edn, edor Joseph Beam wrote, "The bottom le is this: We are Black men who are proudly gay. Beam eded IN THE LIFE, the groundbreakg anthology of black gay wrg, origally published 1986.
IN THE LIFE: A BLACK GAY ANTHOLOGY
He was a board member of the Natnal Coaln of Black Lbians and Gays; was foundg edor of Black/Out magaze; served on the Gay and Lbian Task Force of the Amerin Friends Service Commtee; and, prr to his ath, had begun workg on the book BROTHER TO BROTHER. In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology.