num_pages: 600
description: Black Like Us chronicles 100 years of the African American lesbian, gay, and bisexual literary tradition. Beginning with the turn-of-the-century writings of Angelina Welde Grimke and Alice Dunbar Nelson, it charts the evolution of black lesbian and gay fiction into the Harlem Renaissance of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen and the later postwar era, in which works by Audre Lorde and James Baldwin signal the emerging sexual liberation movements. The 40 authors featured also include Alice Walker, E. Lynn Harris, Audre Lorde, April Sinclair, Jewelle Gomez, Thomas Glave, and Jacqueline Woodson.
language: English
title: Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction
titlecomplete: Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction
genres: Short Stories, American, LGBT, Queer, Race, African American, Anthologies, Fiction, Lesbian, Queer Lit
ratings_count: 169
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY)
category: Gay/Lesbian, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
publisher: Cleis Press