Als, Hilton, The Women (Farrar, 1996).
Burke, Glenn, Erik Sherman, and Michael Sherman, Out at Home: The Glenn Burke Story (Excel, 1995).
DeVeaux, Alexis, Audre Lorde (Random, 1997).
Hardy, James Earl, Boys II Men (Chelsea, 1996).
———, Spike Lee (Chelsea, 1996).
Jones, Bill T., Last Night on Earth (Pantheon, 1995).
Julien, Isaac, and Colin MacCabe, Diary of a Young Soul Rebel (British Film Institute, 1991).
Kincaid, Jamaica, My Brother (Farrar, 1997).
Lady Chablis and Theodore Bouloukis, Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah (Simon, 1996).
RuPaul, Lettin’ It All Hang Out: An Autobiography (Hyperion, 1995).
Walker, Rebecca, Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (Riverhead, 2000). Ward, Roger T., Anger Is What I Do Best: The Journal of a Black Gay Man in America (Ward, 2000).
History and Reference
Black, Allida M., ed., Modern American Queer History (Temple UP, 2001).
Boykin, Keith, One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America (Doubleday, 1996). Castle, Terry, The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (Columbia UP, 1993).
Clendinen, Dudley, and Adam Nagourney, Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America (Simon, 1999).
Cohen, Cathy J., The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (U of Chicago P, 1999).
Collins, Patricia Hill, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Unwin, 1990).
Comstock, Gary David, A Whosoever Church: Welcoming Lesbians and Gay Men into African American Congregations (Knox, 2001).
Dixon, Melvin, Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature (U of Illinois P, 1987).
Faderman, Lillian, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth- Century America (Columbia UP, 1991).
Gomes, Peter, The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart (Avon, 1996).
Grahn, Judy, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds (Beacon, 1984).
Hine, Darlene Clark, Rosalyn Terborg-Penne, and Elsa B. Brown, eds., Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Carlson, 1993).
Hine, Darlene Clark, and Kathleen Thompson, A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (Broadway, 1998).
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———, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (South End, 1984).
———, Black Looks: Race and Representation (South End, 1992).
Hull, Akasha Gloria, Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women (Inner Traditions, 2001); includes Alexis DeVeaux.
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POETRY
Birtha, Becky, The Forbidden Poems (Seal, 1991).
Brand, Dionne, No Language Is Neutral (McClelland, 1990).
Cassell, Cyrus, The Mud Actor (Holt, 1982).
———, Soul Make a Path through Shouting (Copper Canyon, 1995).
———, Beautiful Signor (Copper Canyon, 1997).
Clinton, Michelle T., Good Sense and the Faithless Plays (U of New Mexico P, 1994). Cook, Carl, Postscripts (Vega, 1995).
Davenport, Doris, it’s like this (self-published, 1980).
———, eat thunder and drink rain (self-published, 1983).
———, Voodoo Chile (Soque Street, 1991).
DeVeaux, Alexis, Blue Heat: Poems and Drawings (Diva, 1985).
Dixon, Melvin, Climbing Montmartre (Broadside, 1974).
———, Change of Territory (UP of Virginia, 1983).
———, Love’s Instrument (Tia Chucha, 1995).
Gomez, Jewelle, The Lipstick Papers (self-published, 1980).
———, Flamingoes and Bears (Grace, 1986). ———, Oral Tradition: Selected Poems Old and New (Firebrand, 1995).
Hamer, Forrest, Call and Response (Alice James, 1995).
———, Middle Ear (Heyday, 2000).
Hemphill, Essex, Conditions (self-published, 1985).
———, Earth Life (self-published, 1985).
James, G. Winston, Lyric: Poems along a Broken Road (Grape Vine, 1999).
Jones, Cy K., Sweep (Bloody Someday, 1996).
Phillips, Carl, In the Blood (Northeastern UP, 1992).
———, Cortege (Graywolf, 1995).
———, From the Devotions (Graywolf, 1997).
———, Pastoral (Graywolf, 2000).
Rushin, Kate, The Black Back-ups (Firebrand, 1993).
Saint, Assotto, Stations (Galiens, 1989).
———, Wishing for Wings (Galiens, 1995).
Sapphire, Meditations on the Rainbow (Crystal Bananas, 1987).
———, American Dreams (Vintage 1996).
———, Black Wings and Blind Angels (Knopf, 1999).
Shepherd, Reginald, Some Are Drowning (U of Pittsburgh P, 1993).
———, Angel Interrupted (U of Pittsburgh P, 1996).
———, Wrong (U of Pittsburgh P, 1999).
Sneed, Pamela, Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery (Holt, 1998). Taylor, Cheryl Boyce, Night When Moon Follows (Long Shot, 2000).
———, Raw Air (Fly by Night, 2000).
Thompson, Jerry, What Happens! (Cosmo, 1994).
Vega Studios, A Warm December (Vega, 1992).
White, Marvin, Last Rights (Alyson, 1999).
ABOUT THE EDITORS
DEVON CARBADO is Professor of Law and African American Studies at the University of California–Los Angeles. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional criminal procedure, critical race/feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies, and criminal adjudication. His scholarship appears in law reviews at, among other institutions, Harvard, UCLA, Cornell, and Michigan. He was recently elected Professor of the Year and is the editor of Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (New York UP, 1999).
DWIGHT A. MCBRIDE is Chair of the Department of African-American Studies and an Associate Professor of English and African-American Studies at Northwestern University. His published essays are in the areas of race theory and black cultural studies. He is the author of Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (New York UP, 2001), a book-length study of abolitionist discourse and the problem of witnessing slavery in Britain and the United States. He is the editor of James Ba
ldwin Now (New York UP, 1999). He also coedited a special issue of the journal Callaloo entitled “Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies” (winter 2000).
DONALD WEISE is a coeditor of The Huey P. Newton Reader (Seven Stories, 2002) with Black Panther Party leader David Hilliard. He is also editor of Gore Vidal’s book of essays Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking— Collected Sex Writings (Cleis, 1999). His collection of writings by the black gay civil rights pioneer Bayard Rustin, entitled Time on Two Crosses, is being coedited with Devon Carbado for Cleis Press.
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