International Gay & Lesbian Review

Black Men White Men: Afro-American Gay Life and Culture

• Nonfiction
• Publisher: Gay Sunshine Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• 231 pages

For the first time, the Afro-American and interracial gay experience: a collection of short stories, personal reminiscences, interviews, political articles, photos, poems, drawings—from the most scholarly to the most explicit, by forty-three writers, artists.

Includes:

• Smoke, Lilies and Jade—a short story by Harlem Renaissance writer Bruce Nugent
  
• I Loved My Friend My Friend and Cafe: 3 A.M. by world-famous writer Langston Hughes
  
• Chester by Lyle Glazier—“Chunky, solid but of small frame, fresh-faced and handsome, he was scarred by tragic experiences.”
  
• The Double Life of a Gay Dodger by Michael Smith—In-depth, controversial profile of a Black major-league baseball player, Glenn Burke, who “came out.”
  Thick Vegetarian Cum by Black gay prisoner Roosevelt Williamson.

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