Jeffery Mingo 2002-01-22

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

For its time, this book may have been revolutionary. However, when so many great books have been written by/on black gay men (Brother to Brother, One More River to Cross, Vanishing Rooms, etc.), there is little need to read this book now. This book allows white men to speak more than blacks do. Relatives of Smith's black lovers say he exploited his mates. Why did Langston Hughes' estate allow his work to be published here but not spoken in Isaac Julien's "Looking for Langston"? Don't let the new cool cover fool you. There's better stuff out there, even interracial stuff.

1999-12-17

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

'For the first time, the Afro-American and interracial gay experience: a collection of short stories, personal reminiscences, interviews, political articles, photos, poems, drawings -- from the most scholarly to the most explicit by 43 writers/artists. Re-issue of a gay classic. Includes work such as "The Double Life of a Gay Dodger," [on a black baseball player]; "Smoke, Lilies and Jade" -- a short story by Harlem Renaissance writer Bruce Nugent; "T'ain't Nobody's Bizness: Homosexuality in 1920s Harlem," by Eric Garber; "Racism in the Gay Press," "Struggles of a Black Gay Pentecostal," work by world-famous writer Langston Hughes, and much more......' - from Gay Sunshine Press