Research is my favorite part

[effex]

Can anyone recommend reading re: being black and queer in the 1950s/60s US? I'm finding resources on being black and (presumed) straight or queer and white (and male, usually), but not both.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

You might try James Baldwin.

Also Bayard Rustin.

[effex]

Thank you!

[muccamukk]

Sam Delany's memoirs The Motion of Light in Water

James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son

[effex]

Thank you! My library even has both books, onto the request list they go.

[elspethdixon]

If you can access Academic Search Premier through a public library subscription, you may be able to dig up some good journal articles about queer WoC. I was able to find some interesting stuff about lesbian pulps there.

[effex]

I've got... Academic Search Complete, apparently. Thanks for the tip, I'd completely forgotten about my library's online resources.