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Blood Beats: Vol. 1
by Ernest Hardy Writing from a critical center that is melanin-based/ feminist/ pro-queer/ unabashedly-leftist, LA-based writer Ernest Hardy (a Sundance Fellow and member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association whose work has appeared in Rolling...$19.95 -
Blood Beats: Vol. 2
by Ernest Hardy Writing from a critical center that is melanin-based/ feminist/ pro-queer/ unabashedly-leftist, LA-based writer Ernest Hardy (a Sundance Fellow and member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association whose work has appeared in Rolling...$19.95 -
Brother to Brother
ed. by Essex Hemphill Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men, begun by Joseph Beam and completed by Essex Hemphill after Beam's death in 1988, is a collection of now-classic literary work by black...$17.00 -
Carry the Word
ed. by Steven G. Fullwood and Lisa C. Moore Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books is a seminal reference work, featuring over 600 titles by and about black Same-Gender-Loving (SGL) and Lesbian, Gay,...$16.95 -
does your mama know?
ed. by Lisa C. Moore BACK IN STOCK! By turns funny, passionate, angry and joyous, does your mama know? reflects the complexity of emotions that accompany a black lesbian’s coming out. These short stories, poems, interviews and essays—fiction...$19.95 -
Erzulie's Skirt
by Ana-Maurine Lara Set in the age of urbanization in the Dominican Republic over the course of several lifetimes, Erzulie’s Skirt is a tale of how women and their families struggle with love, tragedy and destiny. Told...$15.00 -
For Sizakele
by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene OUT OF STOCK! Taylor, a queer Nigerian college student, is in a passionate relationship with Lee, a black American basketball-playing pianist. When Taylor develops romantic feelings for Sy, a Cameroonian...$15.00 -
Gospel: poems
by Samiya Bashir Gospel is an ecumenical resistance song in four parts. In this passionate follow-up to 2005’s Lambda Literary Award finalist, Where the Apple Falls, Bashir’s poems challenge truth to stare down the power of...$15.00 -
In the Life
ed. by Joseph Beam In the Life, an expression which means being gay, is also the title of this collection of writings in which more than 25 black authors explore what it means to be doubly...$17.00 -
Kohnjehr Woman
IN STOCK! by Ana-Maurine Lara "Ana Lara's Kohnjehr Woman evokes a world such as only narrative poetry can. In a series of concise, orally grounded and visually vivid poems, she introduces the mysterious avenger, Shee,...$15.00 -
last rights
by Marvin K. White The poems collected in last rights portray caring, humanness, family or kinship, humor, despair, ordinary problems and unqualified love as they occur in the everyday lives of homosexuals. With the quiet dignity of...$14.00 -
love conjure/blues
by Sharon Bridgforth love conjure/blues is performance literature/a novel that is constructed for breath. love conjure/blues places the fiction-form inside a traditional Black American voice/inviting dramatic interpretation and movement within the fit of a highly literary text—filled with...$14.00 -
nothin' ugly fly: poems
by Marvin K. White In nothin’ ugly fly, Marvin K. White follows his celebrated last rights by charting the course from being a boy "dangerous and unexpected" to being a man who becomes "expected" through loving another man. ...$14.00 -
Our Name Be Witness
by Marvin K. White BACK IN STOCK! E-BOOK AVAILABLE HERE! Our Name Be Witness is a hearing of voices and a judgment of women collected by poet Marvin K. White. These women where he comes...$15.00 -
sash & trim and other plays
OUT OF STOCK! by Djola Branner Djola Branner’s first collection of dramatic work, sash & trim and other plays, “takes the reader on a journey through blackness and queerness in ways that stretch the imagination and chronicle...$20.00 -
Speaking in Whispers
by Kathleen E. Morris Speaking in Whispers hints and promises; it is warm breath and fragrant fluids. In the language of lesbian loving—sometimes poetic euphemism, sometimes raw and crude, sometimes playful and laughter-filled—Speaking in Whispers...$11.95 -
Spirited
ed. by G. Winston James and Lisa C. Moore In Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity, more than 40 writers address the question of how we, as same-gender-loving black people, affirm ourselves as...$16.95 -
Status
by Marvin K. White Status is a collection of commiserations, wisdoms, placeholders, remembrances, lessons, guiding principles, wives’ tales, riddles, puns, purges, time management tools and helpful hints. It is an amalgamation of reiterations, recipes, spells and...$10.00