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Article: Black Like Us: a Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction.(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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edited by Devon W. Carbado, Dwight A. McBride, and Donald Weise Cleis Press, July 2002 $29.95, ISBN 1-573-44108-2
The popularity of African-American same-gender loving (SGL) fiction in this new century owes much to the wordsmiths of the previous hundred years. Twentieth century lesbian, gay and bisexual authors of fiction began writing in codes as complex as Underground Railroad communiques, stepped tepidly out of the closet during the Harlem Renaissance.
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction, charts this evolution deftly. From the turn-of-the-century writings of color-conscious Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Paul Laurence ...