Best Black Gay Erotica

Shane Allison, born and raised in Florida, has had poems, stories, and reviews in New Delta Review, Mississippi Review, Mind Caviar, Van Gogh's Ear, Suspect Thoughts, and Velvet Mafia. His poems have appeared in anthologies such as Coloring Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Multicultural Writers, Fantasy Made Flesh, Wild and Willing, and he has work forthcoming in Gents, Badboys and Barbarians 2: This New Breed, and I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage. His book of poems, Black Fag, is out from Future Tense Press. He is thirty-one, single, and loves Kung Fu movies. Shout-outs to Darieck Scott and the Gods and Goddesses at Cleis Press for giving his work a home. Red Jordan Arobateau is the author of forty books of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans fiction, poetry, and plays. He sells his work on his website at redjordanarobateau.com and through his mail order address at 484 Lake Park Ave., PMB228, Oakland, CA 94610 USA. Belasco's work has been collected in The Brothers of New Essex, and has been featured in Best Gay Erotica, GBM, Whazzup!, and Meatmen. His chapbooks include Lust for Sale, Confessions, Enter Lewd, and Nasssssty, and the collections What Gran'maw Saw, Nuthin' But Feet and Azz, Li'l Big Dick in Midnight B-Ballin', and Boo: Down 'n Dirty. He lives in Los Angeles. Christopher David, a passionate spirit with much to say, was born to write...but not just to write...but to sing, speak, nurture, and motivate. Born and raised in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant in the borough of Brooklyn, Christopher David is geared up and ready to revolutionize the way the world views him, homosexuality, and the black experience. To find out more visit him at www.christopherscypher.com. Samuel R. Delany is a novelist and critic. His fiction includes Dhalgren, the Return to Neveryon series, and Atlantis: Three Tales. His nonfiction writing includes The Motion of Light in Water, Village Voice best-seller Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, and 1984: Selected Letters. Winner of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a Lifetime's Contribution to Lesbian and Gay Literature, he currently teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia. William S. Doan (b. 1940) is a writer, photographer, and political activist. His previous books include the cult classic Photoflexion: 100 years of Bodybuilding Photographs and Al Urban, a monograph about the late pioneer on male photography. His photographs have been acquired by a dozen American museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Historic New Orleans Collection, as well as the Tom of Finland Foundation. Since 1981, he has been the secretary of the Doan Family Foundation. He is an associate member of ONYX. Washington, DC, multimedia artist Brian S. Baker has been William Doan's muse since 1999. All the characters in "Photographic Memory" are fictional. Giovanni is a thirty-year-old professional weight trainer by day and an aspiring writer by night, born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised by a mother who dedicated thirty-four years of her life to teaching English in the public school system, and a grandfather who spent the last thirty years of his life instilling good values in his grandson. He spent two years of college working toward a degree in journalism before developing an interest in bodybuilding and leaving school to pursue a career as a personal trainer. Thomas Glave is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, the forthcoming Toward Nobilities of the Imagination: Essays, and editor of the forthcoming anthology A Fi We Time: Contemporary Caribbean Lesbian and Gay Writing. He has recently completed The Torturer's Wife and Other Not-Fictions. He is an assistant professor of English and Africana Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. James Earl Hardy is the author of the best-selling B-Boy Blues series, which chronicles the relationship between a journalist-turned-creative-writing teacher and a bike messenger-turned-supermodel/actor. The titles include: B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-on-Black Love Story; 2nd Time Around; If Only for One Nite; The Day Eazy-E Died; and Love the One You're With. The sixth and final novel, A House Is Not a Home, will be released in spring 2005. A 1993 honors graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism, his byline as a feature writer and cultural critic has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Essence, Newsweek, OUT, VIBE, The Source, and The Washington Post. He lives in Atlanta. Reginald Harris's Ten Tongues: Poems was a finalist for the 2003 Lambda Literary Award. Head of the Information Technology Support Department for the Enoch Pratt Free Library, he has received Individual Artist Awards for both poetry and fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council. His work has appeared in numerous venues, including 5 AM, African-American Review, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Sou'wester, and the anthologies Black Silk; Chocolate Flava; Intimacy: Erotic Stories of Love, Lust, and Marriage by Black Men; and Brown Sugar I, II, and IV. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, he lives with his partner in Baltimore. Jonathan Ivy Kidd earned both his 1997 BA from the University of Michigan and 2004 PhD from Yale University in the fields of African-American Studies and English Literature. His work has been previously published by Velvet Mafia and Clamor magazine. A proponent of drama, Kidd currently resides in New York City where he runs Adam, Eve, and Steve Productions, a theater/film company which he cofounded in 2001. Tip Langley is an actor, singer, writer, and longtime connoisseur of erotica who lives in Oakland, California. Canaan Parker is the author of two novels, The Color of Trees and Sky Daddy. A songwriter and graphic artist, Canaan is a native New Yorker. Robert F. Reid-Pharr is professor of English in the PhD Program in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of two books of criticism: Conjugal Union: The Body, the House and the Black American and Black Gay Man: Essays. He lives in Brooklyn. Domingo Rhodes was born in north Louisiana, and lives and works north of Los Angeles. He is enamored of all things Tyson Beckford and has spent most of his thirty-six years day-dreaming. Jay Russell is the author of Booty Boys and Voodoo Man, both published by Idol Books. He is in his thirties, lives in London, and works at a library. Blaine Teamer was born and raised in Pennsylvania. A Penn State graduate who earned his degree in English in 1991, he moved to Los Angeles and began work at The National Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum. A former member of the Los Angeles Theater Center's Wordsmith program, his theatrical works are Momma's Boys, Black Coffee, Delicate Flowers, and Pandora's Trunk, which was invited to be performed at the renowned biannual National Black Theater Festival in 2003. His published work includes Maya: Diasporic Juks and Shady: A Novel. Darieck Scott lives in San Francisco, and is the author of Traitor to the Race (1995). His fiction has appeared in the anthologies Black Like Us, Shade, Giant Steps, Flesh and the Word 4, and Ancestral House. He has published nonfiction essays in Callaloo, GLQ, The Americas Review, and the collection Gay Travels. He is assistant professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he teaches African American literature and creative writing. He has recently finished a sci-fi manuscript, The Missing, and is at work on a book of criticism entitled Black Bottom: Male Rape and the Body of History in the African American Literary Imagination.Scott, Darieck is the author of 'Best Black Gay Erotica', published 2004 under ISBN 9781573442046 and ISBN 1573442046.