Gay and Lesbian African Americans

Selected Resources Available at the

Resource Center Dallas • 2701 Reagan Street, Dallas, TX

214-540-4451 • library@rcdallas.org

NONFICTION
American women and HIV/AIDS : critical responses. Edited by Dorie J. RA643.83 A35 2003
Gilbert and Ednita M. Wright
Baldwin, James. The fire next time. E185.61 B195 1970
Essays on race and America. Finalist National Book Award.
Baldwin, James. Nobody knows my name; more notes of a native son. E185.61 B197 1963
Finalist National Book Award.
Boykin, Keith. Beyond the down low: sex, lies, and denial in black America. HQ74.2 B69 B49 2005
Brandt, Eric. Dangerous liaisons: Blacks & gays and the struggle for equality. HQ76.45 U5 D35 1999
17 essays by leading figures from both movements. Publishing Triangle Randy
Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Burke, Glenn. Out at Home: The Glenn Burke Story. GV865 B87 B87 1995
Autobiography of Major League Baseball player.
Gary Comstock. A whosoever church: welcoming lesbians and gay men into BV4468.2 A34 C65 2001
African American congregations.
Davis, Angela. Women, race & class. E185.86 D383 1983
D'Emilio, John. Lost prophet: the life and times of Bayard Rustin. E185.97 R93 D46 2003
DeVeaux, Alexis. Warrior poet: a biography of Audre Lorde. PS3562 O75 Z66 2004
Dunning, Stefanie. Queer in black and white : interraciality, same sex desire, E185.86 D86 Q44 2009
and contemporary African American culture.
Griffin, Horace L. Their own receive them not: African American lesbians and BR115 H6 G745 2006
gays in Black churches.
hooks, bell. Ain't I a woman: Black women and feminism. E185.86 H73 1984
Jordan, Barbara. Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder. E838.5 J6735 2007
Speeches from the late Texas Congresswoman. Includes DVD
King, J. L. On the down low: a journey into the lives of "straight" Black men E185.86 K56 O5 2004
who sleep with men.
Levenson, Jacob. The secret epidemic: the story of AIDS and Black America. RA643.83 L48 S4 2004
Lorde, Audre. A burst of light: essays. E185.86 L675 B87 1988
Lambda Literary Award Finalist Lesbian Nonfiction 1988
Lorde, Audre. Sister outsider: Essays and speeches. E185.86 L675 S57 1984
A leader of contemporary feminist theory discusses racism, self-acceptance,
motherhood and being a woman. Publishing Triangle 100 Best Nonfiction Books
Mead, Margaret and Baldwin, James. A rap on race. E185.61 M48 1971
Transcription of a conversation between these two notable authors.
Reid-Pharr, Robert. Black gay man: essays. E185.61 R45 B53 2001
Robertson ,Gil IV. .Not in my family: AIDS in the African-American RA643.83 N68 2006
Community.
Rustin, Bayard. Time on two crosses: the collected writings. E185.97 R84 T5 2003
Schwarz, A.B. Christa. Gay voices of the Harlem Renaissance. PS153 S39 G38 2003
Wright, Kai. Drifting toward love: black, brown, gay, and coming of age on HQ76.6 W75 D7 2008
the streets of New York.
Wright, Kai. The Way Forward: The State of AIDS in Black America. RA643.83 B54 2006
FICTION, POETRY, & LITERATURE
Baldwin, James. Another Country. PS3552 A45 A5 1963
The relationships of a group of artists, writers, and musicians in Greenwich
Village in the 1950’s. Publishing Triangle 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels
Baldwin, James. Blues for Mister Charlie : a play. PS3552 A45 B5 1964
Story of the trial of a white man for the murder of the son of a Black minister.
Baldwin, James. Giovanni's room. PS3552 A45 G5 1956
Two men react very differently to their homosexuality. Publishing Triangle 100
Best Gay and Lesbian Novels. Finalist National Book Award.
Baldwin, James. Go tell it on the mountain. PS3552 A45 G62 1970
Baldwin's first novel about a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of his identity as
the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem.
Baldwin, James. Just above my head. PS3552 A45 J8 1979
A man mourning the death of his brother reflects back over their lives in Harlem
and beyond. Finalist National Book Award.
Weatherby, W.J. James Baldwin, artist on fire. PS3552.A45 Z94 1989
Campbell, James. Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin. PS3552 A45 Z63 1991
Delany, Samuel R. Dark reflections. PS3554 E437 D37 2007
Giovanni, Nikki. Several books of her poetry PS3557 I55…
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the sun & The sign in Sidney Brustein’s PS3515 A515 A6 1987
window. Raisin was winner of the New York Drama Critics Award.
Hardy, James Earl. Several popular novels featuring gay African American men. PS3558 A62375…
Harris, E. Lynn. Several popular novels featuring bisexual African American men. PS3558 A64438…
Here to dare: 10 gay Black poets. Edited by Assotto Saint PS595 H65 H4 1992
Hughes, Langston. Selected poems of Langston Hughes. PS3515 U274 A6 1974
Hughes, Langston. The ways of white folks. PS3515 U274 W3 1990
14 short stories about relationships between Black and white Americans.
Rampersad, Arnold. The life of Langston Hughes. PS3515 U274 Z698 1986
Jordan, June. Naming our Destiny: New and selected poems. PS3560 O73 N3 1989
Lorde, Audre. Our dead behind us: poems. PS3562 O75 O8 1986
Lorde, Audre. Undersong: Chosen poems. PS 3562 O75 U5 1992
Lambda Literary Award Winner Lesbian Poetry 1992
Lorde, Audre. Zami, a new spelling of my name. PS3562 O75 Z23 1982
A semiautobiographical story of a Black lesbian discovering herself in a racist,
homophobic American society. Publishing Triangle 100 Best Nonfiction Books.
Mickelbury, Penny. Mysteries featuring an African American woman as the PS3563 I3517…
investigator.
Walker, Alice. The color purple. PS3573 A425 C6 1982
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

FILMS
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin.
Documentary about the Civil Rights leader who was gay.
The Color Purple. Academy Award winning movie based on the book.
Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom. Movie sequel to Logo TV series.

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