Anthologies of African American Writing

Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present

"Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present". Ed. E. Lynn Harris. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. 225 pp.

● Introduction
● James Baldwin / from "Just Above My Head" (1979)
● Sidney Brinkley / Passion (1981)
● Salih Michael Fisher / Assumption about the Harlem Brown Baby (1983)
● Joseph Beam / Brother to Brother: Words from the Heart (1984)
● Samuel R. Delany / from "Flight from Nevèrÿon" (1985)
● Isaac Jackson / Michael Stewart is Dead (1985)
● Reginald Shepherd / On Not Being White (1986)
● Jerry Thompson / 19: A Poem About Kenny/Portrait of a Hard Rock (1986)
● Gil Gerald / The Trouble I've Seen (1987)
● Daniel Garrett / Other Countries: The Importance of Difference (1987)
● Donald W. Woods / Couch Poem (1989)
● Vega / Brothers Loving Brothers (1989)
● David Frechette / "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" (1989)
● Essex Hemphill / The Tomb of Sorrow (1989)
● Melvin Dixon / Aunt Ada Pieces a Quilt (1989)
● Marvin K. White / for colored boys who have considered s-curls when the hot comb was enuf (1990)
● Craig G. Harris / I'm Going Out Like a Fucking Meteor (1991)
● Marlon Riggs / Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a SNAP! Queen (1991)
● Don Charles / Comfort (1991)
● Randall Kenan / The Foundations of the Earth (1992)
● Robert E. Penn / Mike #2 (1992)
● Larry Duplechan / from "Captain Swing" (1993)
● Steven Corbin / from "Fragments that Remain" (1993)
● Cary Alan Johnson / Post-Nuclear Slut (1993)
● Darieck Scott / This City of Men (1994)
● Cyrus Cassells / A Courtesy, a Trenchant Grace (1994)
● Don Belton / Where We Live: A Conversation with Essex Hemphill and Isaac Julien (1994)
● Assotto Saint / Vital Signs (1995)
● Forrest Hamer / A Boy Doesn't Know (1995)
● G. Winston James / Uprising (1995)
● James Earl Hardy / from "2nd Time Around" (1996)
● Cy K. Jones / Fantasy (1996)
● Gary Fisher / Arabesque (1996)
● Bil Wright / Your Mother from Cleveland (1996)
● Donald Keith Jackson / The Letter (1999)
● Robert Reid-Pharr / Living as a Lesbian (2001)
● Brian Keith Jackson / How to Handle a Boy in Women's Shoes (2001)
● Carl Phillips / Minotaur (2002)
● L. M. Ross / from "A Long and Liberating Moan" (2002)
● Tim'm T. West / Magnetix (2002)
● Keith Boykin / from "Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America" (2004)
● Thomas Glave / The Death and Light of Brian Williamson (2004)
● John Keene / Palimpsest (2004)
● James Hannaham / Game (2004)
● Randy Boyd / from "Walt Loves the Bearcat" (2004)
● Bruce Morrow / Infidelity (2004)
● E. Lynn Harris / What I Did for Love (2004)

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● Lambda Literary Award, 2005

''Freedom in This Village charts for the first time ever the innovative course of black gay male literature of the past 25 years. Starting in 1979 with the publication of James Baldwin’s final novel, Just Above My Head, then on to the radical writings of the 1980s, the breakthrough successes of the 1990s, and up to today’s new works, editor E. Lynn Harris collects 47 sensational stories, poems, novel excerpts, and essays. Authors featured include Samuel R. Delany, Essex Hemphill, Melvin Dixon, Marlon Riggs, Assotto Saint, Larry Duplechan, Reginald Shepherd, Carl Phillips, Keith Boykin, Randall Kenan, Thomas Glave, James Earl Hardy, Darieck Scott, Gary Fisher, Bruce Morrow, John Keene, G. Winston James, Bil Wright, Robert Reid Pharr, Brian Keith Jackson, as well as an array of exciting new and established writers" (publisher's website)

● Garrett, Daniel. "New Stereotypes: Carroll & Graf's Freedom in this Village." "The Compulsive Reader" 4 May 2006.

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