Black gay genius
Subtitle: answering Joseph Beam's call
By: edited by Steven G. Fullwood & Charles Stephens
Publisher: Vintage Entity
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9780975298756
Subjects: African American gay men; Gay authors; Gay men; Lesbians' writings, American; History and criticism; Influence; African American women authors; Literary collections; Gay men's writings, American; Lesbians; African American authors; Gay culture; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: On Joseph Beam: A Conversation / Barbara Smith and Steven G. Fullwood; title: Hey, Joe.You Have Got To Tell the Story: Recalling My Brother/Sister Joseph Beam / Gil Gerald; title: On Meeting Joe Beam / Djola Branner; title: Joe, Essex, Marlon, and Me / Ron Simmons; title: Stronger, In This Life: Loving the Genius of Essex Hemphill and Joseph Beam / Robert F. Reid-Pharr; title: An Archaeology of Grief: The Fear of Remembering Joe Beam / Colin Robinson; title: Montgomery Beamon / Howard Steward; title: Recollections of Joe / Guy Weston; title: Honey, Valley, Black: A Litany for Joseph Beam / Darius Omar Williams; title: Remembering Joe / Arleen Olshan; title: Invoking Joe / Blackberri; title: On In The Life. Because of That Book: Later Dreams, and Sky-Writing / Thomas Glave; title: Hide, Seek, Arrive In The Life, Robert E. Penn; title: The House that Beam Built: Reconstructing the Black Gay Identity in Joseph Beam's In the Life / Brandon Callender; title: Reflections and Revelations / Sanford E. Gaylord; title: Go to the Library, There's Affirming Black Gay Men in Literature / Jair, The Literary Masturbator; title: Strut Through the Fire: Discovering the Words of Joseph Beam / Rashod Ollison; title: In the Life and Death / Kenyon Farrow; title: Queer Forms, Black Lives: Melvin Dixon, Assotto Saint, and Artistic Experimentation / Gershun Avilez; title: Joseph Beam's World Wide Web / Reginald Harris; title: Coming Out after Reading Joseph Beam's In the Life / P.W. Rodgers, III; title: Brother to Brother: Realizing Joseph Beam's Vision of Community / Kevin McGruder; title: Beamesque / Dante Michaeux; title: Queer Relatives. Ratiocination / L. Lamar Wilson; title: The Revolutionary Act of the Eighties: Correspondences Toward the Liberation of Black Gay Men and Women of Color / andreʹ m. carrington; title: Take the Wheel / Ernest Hardy; title: Erotic and the Crisis of Black Love: At Home with Joseph Beam, Melvin Dixon, and In the Life / David Green; title: Queer Relative: Joseph Beam, Audre Lorde, and the Diasporic Poetics of Survival in the 1980s / Alexis Pauline Gumbs; title: Between Friends: An Ongoing Dialogue with ABilly S. Jones-Hennin / ABilly S. Jones-Hennin and Carol Lautier; title: Black Gay Genius Interview with Lisa C. Moore / Shawn(Ta) D. Smith; title: Testimonies. We are Gathered Here Today... / Allen Luther Wright; title: Blur / Phillip B. Williams; title: Crossing Deep Waters: Transatlantic Reflections / Antoine Rogers and Ajamu; title: I Can't Help It / L. Lamar Wilson; title: I am / Anwar Uhuru; title: Permission / Anwar Uhuru; title: Tony / Nasheeda A. Bynes; title: Kindred Souls / Gordon Thompson; title: Giovanni's Room / Robert Philen; title: Narcissus As Narcissus / Reginald Sheperd; title: My Own Protection: A Fortieth-Anniversary Status Report, Informed by "For My own Protection" by Essex Hemphill / Anthony D. Meyers; title: We Are Family. If We Must Die, Let it Not Be Loneliness That Kills Us: Daring to Love Outside Your Race / Reginald T. Jackson; title: Baldwin Boys and Harris Homies / Jarrett Neal; title: Telethon / Ernest Hardy; title: What Remains Body is Oblivion / Phillip B. Willliams; title: December 1, 2031: AIDS at Fifty / Max Smith; title: A Walk through the Neighborhood / Samuel Anthony Autman; title: And I am Looking for You / Marvin K. White; title: Movement I: Remembrance / Darnell L. Moore; title: Movement II: Radical Progression / Darnell L. Moore; title: Envisioning Ourselves. Black and Queer Outside the USA: Three Interviews / John Keene; title: Vanity Fair / Pamela Booker; title: To Be Seen / Jericho Brown; title: The Ten Commandments / Jericho Brown; title: Heart Condition / Jericho Brown; title: Sur Rodney (Sur) and Other Countries / Sur Rodney (Sur); title: Routine / Phillip J. Ammonds; title: Untitled / Michael Ward; title: With Our Heads Held Up High: 2nd Sunday and Joseph Fairchild Beam's Legacy / Craig Washington; title: End Credits / Lamar Grimes; title: Joseph Fairchild Beam: A Working Bibliography; title: About Joseph Beam and In the Life; title: Beam's Death; title: Joseph Beam Resources; title: Contributors; title: About the Editors.