Beloved Novelist Gloria Naylor, 66, has Died
Ebony is reporting that author Gloria
Appreciations: Derrick Austin’s “Summertime”
Every month, “Appreciations” looks closely at a poem or poems from recently-published books by LGBTQ poets
Historian and LGBT Biographer Stephen Maglott, 58, has Died
Stephen Maglott, a dedicated chronicler of LGBT lives, has died
‘Another Brooklyn’ by Jacqueline Woodson
Another Brooklyn is an absorbing, lyrical, beautifully written novel, which quietly draws the reader into its story of four friends “sharing the weight of growing up girl in Brooklyn” in the 1970s
‘Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis’ by Kevin J. Mumford
The book is deeply engaged in answering the question, not posed in the title, but hinted at, “What does it mean for a group of people with neither white, masculine, nor heterosexual privilege to find a political voice?”
Read an Excerpt From Joe Okonkwo’s New Novel ‘Jazz Moon’
Jazz Moon is an evocative novel that maps one character’s journey of self-discovery during the height of the Jazz Age
Darryl Pinckney: On His Novel ‘Black Deutschland’ and the Complexities of Gay Desire
“It used to be that if you told your parents that you were gay, they imagined you were living these aimless nights of danger. Now you tell your parents that you are gay, and they want to meet your boyfriend.”
‘The Collected Black Gay Boy Fantasy #1’ by Victor Hodge
Black Gay Boy Fantasy follows the story of Neil Jordan’s gay coming of age
How the Words of Nikky Finney Help Get Us Through Breaking Up & Breaking Down
Candice Iloh on how the work of the poet Nikky Finney can help us navigate through the world
“Bendova Like I Told Ya”: Big Freedia and the Healing Power of Contradiction
Ease with contradiction would appear to be a kind of puckish response to systemic disenfranchisement
