According to Keith Boykin, for many black gay men, discovering their sexuality is like “finding one more river to cross in the journey toward freedom.” We know that river well. Battling an era fear and silence and shame, who hasn’t felt bombarded with the doom and gloom articles of the 90’s? H.I.V and homophobia, sexual stereotyping and misrepresentation. In times when you can be killed for holding your partners hand, it’s hard not to question what’s good about being black and gay?

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New York and Jamaican raised  action writer and essayist THOMAS GLAVE has earned the reputation as one of the most innovative, gifted and important writers to emerge on the literary scene today. Winner of several awards, Glave is the author of the acclaimed books Whose Song? and Other Stories, Words To Our Now: Imagination and Dissent, and editor of the forthcoming anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles. Glave is a founding member of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays (JFLAG). He teaches at the State University of New York, Binghamton.

 

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