Product Description

Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing marks the twentieth anniversary of Other Countries--a small organization endeavoring to create a powerful, far-reaching, deliberate legacy of black queer expression. Voices Rising gathers sixty-five writers whose work forms an important bridge among members of black LGBT communities, charting two decades of evolution, accomplishment, and struggle. The poems, short stories, essays, interviews and dramatic excerpts gathered here exemplify the personal, political and cultural complexities of identity, desire, family and community. In these pages established authors appear alongside emerging talents and heretofore unknown artists to compelling, historic effect. No other anthology so effectively represents the depth, breadth and brilliance of the current generation of black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender writers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1063294 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-22
• Released on: 2007-01-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 583 pages

About the Author
G. Winston James is a Jamaican-born poet, short fiction writer, essayist and editor. He holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and is the author of poetry collections The Damaged Good and the Lambda Literary Award-nominated Lyric: Poems Along a Broken Road. A former executive director of Other Countries, James is also co-editor of the historic anthology, Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity. Founded in New York City in 1986, Other Countries is an organization of writers and artists dedicated to the development, dissemination and preservation of literature and other forms of cultural expression of gay men of African heritage.