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• IN THE LIFE : A BLACK GAY ANTHOLOGY
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IN THE LIFE : A BLACK GAY ANTHOLOGY

Reviewed the Uned Stat on November 19, 2014A new book that me out October 2014 "BLACK GAY GENIUS: Answerg Joseph Beam's Call" is eded by Steven G.

Reviewed the Uned Stat on July 25, 2014The time is long overdue for gay men of lor to raise their llective voic, to lift the veil of shame and walk the sunlight, by honorg the rt of wh their life stori. Lerature n be the only thg that stands the way of spair a land where homophobia and racism thrive, and lerature wrten by and for gay men of lor is not jt enrichg, has the power to throw off the psychologil shackl of prejudice that bd both the hater and the hated.

IN THE LIFE: A BLACK GAY ANTHOLOGY

The book ends wh a list of black gay lerary rourc. He clus says about black gay anizg. There's an terview wh Richard Bce Nugent, the Harlem Renaissance wrer who was the first Ain-Amerin to mentn homosexualy fictn.

“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.

IN THE LIFE: A BLACK GAY ANTHOLOGY

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 THE LIFE: A BLACK GAY ANTHOLOGY

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. 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.

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