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Black gay genius, answering Joseph Beam's call, edited by Steven G. Fullwood & Charles Stephens

eng

Includes bibliographical references

contains biographical information

no index present

essays

Black gay genius

bibliography

895198533

edited by Steven G. Fullwood & Charles Stephens

answering Joseph Beam's call

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