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Freedom in this Village is the
first book to chart the course of black gay male literature
over the past thirty-five years. Beginning at the birth of
Gay Liberation with the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969, editor
and New York Times best-selling author E. Lynn Harris
collects sixty entries, many never previously published. Fiction
and poetry is matched in eloquence by nonfiction pieces, including
essays and excerpts from memoirs, novels, biography, and autobiography.
A new short story by E. Lynn Harris is featured, along with
original work by twenty-five other authors. Among the roster
of established writers are James Baldwin, Samuel R. Delany,
Melvin Dixon, Peter J. Gomes, George C. Wolfe, Kwame Anthony
Appiah, Hilton Als, Keith Boykin, Randall Kenan, Thomas Glave,
James Earl Hardy, Brian Keith Jackson, Essex Hemphill (from
whose poetry the title Freedom in this Village was
borrowed), and the latest generation of writers who contribute
fresh perspectives that choose to affirm rather than negate
the interconnections between sex, race, and masculinity.
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