Thursday, November 03, 2005
The Literary Dick (as in Private Detective) welcomes questions about literary mysteries and scandals, which should be sent to: woodyswoody@hotmail.com. The Literary Dick (as in Private Detective) is published by Jonathanames.com. Ames, our mentor at this website, has an excellent new book out called, Wake Up, Sir! and an even newer book out (he is the editor) called Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs.
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On Early Gay Black American Writers
Question: Hi Woodsy, darling. I want to know if their were any homosexual African American writers publishing fiction (as opposed to the poetry of Countee Cullen, Wallace Thurman and the apparent gay Langston Hughes) before the advent of James Baldwin's fantastic work.
Can you sleuth this for me Woodsy, darling?
-- Joan
Answer: Yes I can, and yes there are published gay male American black prose writers who predate Baldwin. To find out more about these early gay black American writers, I suggest Joan and those interested visit African-AmericanLiterature: Gay Male . This website lists many early American gay black writers, such as Alain Locke and Claude McKay, and says that:
"Richard Bruce Nugent's "Sadhji," a short story included in Locke's The New Negro (1925), is arguably the first gay text published by an African-American male."
So it is the opinion of The Literary Dick that there are black gay American prose writers who were published before James Baldwin.
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On Early Gay Black American Writers
Question: Hi Woodsy, darling. I want to know if their were any homosexual African American writers publishing fiction (as opposed to the poetry of Countee Cullen, Wallace Thurman and the apparent gay Langston Hughes) before the advent of James Baldwin's fantastic work.
Can you sleuth this for me Woodsy, darling?
-- Joan
Answer: Yes I can, and yes there are published gay male American black prose writers who predate Baldwin. To find out more about these early gay black American writers, I suggest Joan and those interested visit African-AmericanLiterature: Gay Male . This website lists many early American gay black writers, such as Alain Locke and Claude McKay, and says that:
"Richard Bruce Nugent's "Sadhji," a short story included in Locke's The New Negro (1925), is arguably the first gay text published by an African-American male."
So it is the opinion of The Literary Dick that there are black gay American prose writers who were published before James Baldwin.
