photo by Joseph Beam
An Interview with Linda Tillery
WHAT'S GOIN' ON
Blacklight's Calendar of Events
Contributing to this Issue:
Keith Boykin
A Poem for the Millennium March
Larry Bush
An Interview with Andrew Young
Randy Boyd
New Fiction: Bridge Across the Ocean
TaíShia Asanti
Black Lesbian Writers: Wirds for the New Millennium
Hadiyah Malaika
Who Will Catch Me When I Fall?
Black Lesbians Climbing the Corporate Ladder
RECENT ARTICLES
Thomas Glave
New Fiction: Commitment
Reginald Harris
Black to the Future
Ta'Shia Asanti
Black Lesbians Raising Children
Sidney Brinkely
Leadership Forum 'Reinvents' Self
Black Gay Leadership Forum Meets in Chicago
by Robert Schultz
The Color of Sex:
Queer People of Color on Film
by Karl Bruce Knapper
ISSUE FIVE • MILLENNIUM MARCH UPDATE
READS
A Celebration of
Black Writers
GAY ZIMBABWE!
An Interview with Linda Tillery[First Published in Blacklight Vol. 5, No., 1, 1984]
by Joseph Beam
What I have felt for a real long time is, the women's community does not support non-White women's music: financially, emotionally, or in terms of concerts...I hope soon the women's community will open its ears. There are other kinds of music than a woman with a guitar and a woman at a piano.
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The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics
by Cathy J. Cohen
To discuss AIDS in Black communities is to discuss a multiplicity of identities, definitions of membership, locations of power, and strategies for the political, social, and economic survival of the community. To investigate the political response to AIDS in African American communities is to look closely at a much larger phenomenon--namely, a changing political environment.
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Black Lesbian Writers:
Words For the New Millennium
By Ta'Shia Asanti
We are all familiar with the notable writers like the Audre Lordes and Barbara Smiths of the literary world, but this article explores the words of distinguished writers that may not be household names.
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Elizabeth Toledo named NGLTF Executive Director
She's the first Latina, and the first Lesbian mom, to head the veteran
organization. Vows commitment to grassroots organizing and mobilization.
Personal History
My birth name is Danny Lynn Green and as far back as I can remember I was always a girl. I realized I was different around the age of three when I tried to cut off my penis because none of the other little girls had one.
The Mail
Readers have their say on the March, racism and Lesbian Step moms.
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Sidney Brinkley
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