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Contents:
- AIN AMERIN GAY ROMANCE
- 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
- GAY AND LBIAN AIN-AMERIN AUTHORS
AIN AMERIN GAY ROMANCE
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From joyful stori about queer Black girls to memoirs of what means to be Black and gay, the thors prent credible and affirmg stori to read now or anytime. Roxane Gay.
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From love on the soccer field Runng wh Lns to an exploratn of labels and self-exprsn om an out-and-proud gay teen How To Be Remy Cameron. You may regnize Baldw as an fluential wrer om the Civil Rights era, but he was also eply passnate and outspoken about discrimatn agast gay and lbian people as an openly gay man himself.
25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
Fd out the 25 Most Influential Gay Authors You Should Know About 1. Osr Wil 2. Jam Baldw 3. Tennsee Williams 4. Gore Vidal 5. Edmund Whe. * gay black author *
His novels, like Another Country and Gvanni’s Room, explore love along racial and genr l and are classics of gay lerature.
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GAY AND LBIAN AIN-AMERIN AUTHORS
Carol Anrson, “HoodWch: Poems” by Fayla Hicks, “Bad Femist” by Roxane Gay, “Passg” by Nella Larsen and “A Garn for Black Boys” by W. He’s known for famo lectur such as his lecture tled “Race, Racism, and the Gay Communy, ” as well as lerature such as “The Fire Next Time, ” “I Am Not Your Negro” and “If Beale Street Could Talk.
" Beyond her LGBTQ activism, DeLarverie also anized and performed at fundraisers for women who suffered om domtic vlence and their Jam Baldw (Photo by Ted Thai)The LIFE Picture Collectn/GettyJam Baldw (1924-1987)A wrer and social cric, Baldw is perhaps bt known for his 1955 llectn of says, "Not of a Native Son, " and his groundbreakg 1956 novel, "Gvanni's Room, " which picts them of homosexualy and bisexualy. Baldw spent a majory of his lerary and activist reer tg others about Black and queer inty, as he did durg his famo lecture tled “Race, Racism, and the Gay Communy” at a meetg of the New York chapter of Black and Whe Men Together (now known as Men of All Colors Together) and playwright Lorrae Hansberry her New York Cy apartment April Attie / Getty ImagLorrae Hansberry (1930-1965)Hansberry was an activist and playwright bt known for her groundbreakg play “A Rais the Sun, ” about a stgglg Black fay on Chigo’s South Si.
The inic work was then ma to a 1961 film starrg Sidney Poier and Ruby to “A Rais the Sun” fame, Hansberry — who never publicly acknowledged she was a lbian — joed lbian rights group Dghters of Bilis and ntributed letters about femism and homophobia to s magaze, “The Ladr, ” acrdg to LGBTQ historian Eric Marc, host of the “Makg Gay History” podst. Now 79, Miss Major, known to many simply as “Mama, ” ris Ltle Rock, Arkansas, where she ntu to be a vol Sprg's mayor Ron On, April 18, Khan / LA Tim via Getty ImagRon On (Born 1950)When On was elected mayor of Palm Sprgs, California 2003, he ma history by beg the first openly gay Ain Amerin man elected mayor of an Amerin cy. While the events may seem unrelated, activists and lears at the tersectn of the muni say has bee all the more evint that the fight for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights nnot be divorced om the stggle for racial gay rights movement and the Black civil rights movement have long been tertwed, as evinced by the overlap of key figur — cludg Jam Baldw, Pli Murray and Bayard Rt — and the fact that Black activists, among them the transgenr woman Marsha P.