Fighting words : personal essays by black gay men / edited by Charles Michael Smith.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Avon Books, c1999.Description: xxii, 182 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0380799472
  • 9780380799473
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.38/96640973 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.2.U5 F54 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Dreadlocks / Mark Simmons -- Beneath the veneer / Kheven L. LaGrone -- Fear of a gay identity: a personal account on internalizing heterosexism / Geoffrey Giddings -- Coloring outside the lines: an essay at definition / Reginald Shepherd -- Thoughts on trade/Ending an obsession / Edwin L. Greene -- Brother to brother: words from the heart / Joseph F. Beam -- Mentoring gay youth / Thom Bean -- I hate basketball / Kevin McGruder -- Gil's story / Sur Rodney (Sur) -- Behind these prison walls / Eugene Harris -- Closets / G. Winston James -- Kissing cousin / R. Leigh (Tré) Johnson -- Like the white girls / Tod A. Roulette -- The letter / Donald Keith Jackson -- Looking for love / Jalal -- Breaking silence in the middle of a holocaust / Rodney McCoy, Jr. -- The other orphans / Robert E. Penn -- Staying healthy in the age of AIDS / Arnold Jackson -- Dearest brother Set / Conrad R. Pegues -- I pay the black tax / Mark Haile -- Confronting adversity / Bruce Morrow -- Why I'm not marching / David Frechette -- Project Erasure / Fabian Thomas -- The emergence of an African gay and lesbian community / Cary Alan Johnson -- Some of my words / Lawrence Dewyatt Abrams -- A place at the altar / Lynwoodt Jenkins -- I am a homosexual / Essex Hemphill -- Becoming a movement / Rodney Christopher -- The truth about Stonewall / Mark Haile.
Awards:
  • Lambda Literary Award nominee, 1999: Anthology Nonfiction.
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Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. 172-180.

Includes bibliographical references.

Dreadlocks / Mark Simmons -- Beneath the veneer / Kheven L. LaGrone -- Fear of a gay identity: a personal account on internalizing heterosexism / Geoffrey Giddings -- Coloring outside the lines: an essay at definition / Reginald Shepherd -- Thoughts on trade/Ending an obsession / Edwin L. Greene -- Brother to brother: words from the heart / Joseph F. Beam -- Mentoring gay youth / Thom Bean -- I hate basketball / Kevin McGruder -- Gil's story / Sur Rodney (Sur) -- Behind these prison walls / Eugene Harris -- Closets / G. Winston James -- Kissing cousin / R. Leigh (Tré) Johnson -- Like the white girls / Tod A. Roulette -- The letter / Donald Keith Jackson -- Looking for love / Jalal -- Breaking silence in the middle of a holocaust / Rodney McCoy, Jr. -- The other orphans / Robert E. Penn -- Staying healthy in the age of AIDS / Arnold Jackson -- Dearest brother Set / Conrad R. Pegues -- I pay the black tax / Mark Haile -- Confronting adversity / Bruce Morrow -- Why I'm not marching / David Frechette -- Project Erasure / Fabian Thomas -- The emergence of an African gay and lesbian community / Cary Alan Johnson -- Some of my words / Lawrence Dewyatt Abrams -- A place at the altar / Lynwoodt Jenkins -- I am a homosexual / Essex Hemphill -- Becoming a movement / Rodney Christopher -- The truth about Stonewall / Mark Haile.

Lambda Literary Award nominee, 1999: Anthology Nonfiction.

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