Just because Black people who happen to be gay seem to have to be troubled and miserable, I wanted to raise the rainbow flag and mention two new books that hit the shelves in June.
Passing for Black by Linda Villarosa is a novel about a Black woman who leaves her handsome, Black stud-muffin boyfriend for a White woman. Scandal. And Craig Seymour's new memoir, All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay D.C., is a laugh-out loud tell all of, well, the author's life in the strip clubs of gay D.C.
I just wanted to announce the arrival of these books because in both breezy tomes, there's a happy ending and the lives of gay people of color are explored in non-pathological ways. They're just kind of living and loving. Like everybody else. As it should be.
So there it is.
Peace.
Good to see more positive books about being being black and gay. Its all so very hush hush still(at least in my world). I say live and be true to yourself.And thanks to Logo channel and L Word, the media is showing another side .
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