Monthly Archives: March 2011

Brother Huey Got His Back

Posted on March 31, 2011 by gar

{Editors Note:  The dialog between Jameel and Alfonso was taken from my unpublished novel Sin Against the Race.} He knew Hegel.  He knew Marx.  He knew Lenin.  He knew Trotsky.  He knew Mao.  He knew Ché.  He knew Cleaver.  He … Continue reading →

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Lift Every Voice – Excerpt from Sin Against the Race

Posted on March 25, 2011 by gar

Beacon Hill First Baptist’s sanctuary screamed money.  The suits came well pressed and in three-piece.  The dresses looked never worn.  The hats were clearly seeing first light out of the milliner’s.  And the various colognes and perfumes aloft battled for … Continue reading →

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Dame Elizabeth Taylor

Posted on March 23, 2011 by gar

Today I’ve had one word going through my head:  GEORGE!  GEOOOOORRGE! It’s impossible to represent with letter and words and punctuation the raw emotion evoked when Elizabeth Taylor belched it from her gut in scene after scene of her Oscar winning … Continue reading →

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The Lavender Veil – Excerpt from “Sin Against the Race”

Posted on March 13, 2011 by gar

In one of my history classes at UCLA, we read W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk. Originally published in 1903, it is included in the celebrated reader of early African American scholarship, Three Negro Classics.  My professor described … Continue reading →

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Acting Up at Sammy’s – from Sin Against the Race

Posted on March 6, 2011 by gar

The first piece I ever had published was an excerpt from Sin Against the Race that told the tale of some black gay folks attending their first ACT UP meeting.  It was included in the anthology Sojourner:  Black Gay Voices … Continue reading →

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