Bib Index - Resource Books - Ordering

LGBT Persons of Color

Male Homosexuality in Four Societies: Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines, & the United States Fredrick L. Whitam & Robin M. Mathy
Praeger Publishers (1986)

Respecting the Soul: Daily Reflections for Black Lesbians and Gays by Keith Boykin
Avon Books (1998); ISBN: 0380800217

One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America by Keith Boykin
Doubleday Books (1998); ISBN: 0385479832

A Whosoever Church: Welcoming Lesbians and Gay Men into African American Congregations Edited by Gary Comstock
Westminster Press, (2001); ISBN: 0664222803

Interviews with 20 black scholars and religious leaders who speak out (from various theological perspectives) against institutional prejudice toward lesbian / gay people. The interviews are conducted in a conversational format in language that will be accessible and interesting to lay readers.

Fighting Words: Personal Essays by Black Gay Men by Charles Michael Smith (ed.)
Avon Books (1998); ISBN: 0380799472

Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men by Essex Hemphill (ed.), Joe Beam (contributor)
Alyson Publications (1991); ISBN: 155583146X

Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay & Lesbian Experience by Russell Leong
Routledge (1996)

The Sexuality of Latinas by Norma Alarcón, Ana Castillo & Cherríe Moraga (eds.)
Third Woman Press, (1988)

Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality by Eric Brandt (ed.), Barbara Smith, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Audre Lorde, Martin Duberman, Cornel West, and Samuel Delany, Jewelle Gomez (contributors)
New Press (1999); ISBN: 1565844556

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua
Aunt Lute Books (1987)

Hasta Me Da Miedo Decirlo by Barboya, Nidia
San Jose: Editorial Costa Rica, 1985

The Two Mujeres by Sara Levi Calderon
Aunt Lute Press, (1992)

So Far From God by Ana Castillo
W.W. Norton, (1993)

The Storyteller with Nike Airs and the Barrio Stories by Kleya Fort-Escamilla
Aunt Lute, (1994). (English/Ingles). Short Stories/Cuentos

Mada: An Erotic Novel by Kleya Fort-Escamilla
Toronto: Sister Vision Press (1993)

Cuentos: Stories by Latinas by Alma Gomez, Cherríe Moraga, & Mariana Romo-Carmona, (eds.)
Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, (1983)

Lesbian Voices from Latin America by Elena M. Martinez (ed.)
Hamden, CT: Garland Publishers (1996)

The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry by Cherríe Moraga
Boston: South End Press, (1993)

Loving in the War Years: lo que nunca paso por sus labios by Cherríe Moraga
Boston: South End Press (1983)

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldóa, (eds.)
Kitchen Table Press, (1983)

We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? by Achy Obejas
Cleis Press, (1994)

Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas
Cleis Press (1994)

Compañeras: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology) by Juanita Ramos (ed.)
Routledge, Chapman and Hall, (1994)

Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology Silvera, Makeda, (ed.)
Toronto: Sister Vision Press, (1991)

Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About Trujillo, Carla, (ed.)
Third Woman Press, (1991); ISBN: 094321906X

Non-Fiction books, articles, essays and chapters:

Latin Moon in Manhattan by Jaime Manrique
St. Martin's Press, (1992)

Eminent Maricones: Puig, Arenas, Lorca & Me by Jaime Manrique
St. Martin's Press, (1999)

Neil Miller. "Race and Culture: San Antonio, Texas," in In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change
(Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989)

Francis Negron-Mutaner. "Echoing Stonewall and Other Dilemmas: The Organizational Beginnings of a Gay and Lesbian Agenda in Puerto Rico, 1972-1977" (in two parts). Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos Bulletin
(Winter 1991-92 and Spring 1992 issues)

Rodrigo Reyes. "Latino Gays: Coming Out and Coming Home." Nuestro magazine
(April 1981)

Richard Rodriguez. "Late Victorians," in Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father
(Viking, 1992)

Walter Williams. "The Abominable Sin: The Spanish Campaign Against 'Sodomy,' and Its Results in Modern Latin America," in The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture
(Beacon Press, 1986)

Carter Wilson. "Queen of Hearts: Dancing 'til Dawn in the Artichoke Capital of the World," with photographs by Brook Dillon, in Outlook (Summer 1992), originally printed in the [Santa Cruz County] Lavender Reader (Spring 1992)

Terri de la Pena. Margins (The Seal Press, 1992)

Ibis Gomez-Vega. Send My Roots Rain (aunt lute books, 1991)

Giving Up the Ghost by Cherríe Moraga
West End Press, (1986)

"Miguel: Sexual Life History of a Gay Mexican American," in Gay Culture in America: Essays from the Field by Gilbert Herdt (ed.)
Beacon Press, (1992)

"The Drag Queen--Rey 'Sylvia Lee' Rivera," in Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 by Eric Marcus
Harper Collins, (1992)

"Abuelo: My Grandfather, Raymond Acuna," by Michael Nava
in A Member of the Family: Gay Men Write About Their Families, by John Preston (ed.) Plume, (1994)

Anthologies:

Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing by David William Foster
University of Texas Press (1991)

My Deep, Dark Pain is Love: A Collection of Latin American Gay Fiction by Winston Leyland, (ed.)
Gay Sunshine Press, (1983)

Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature by Winston Leyland, (ed.)
Gay Sunshine Press (1979)

Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
Viking Press

The Doorman by Reinaldo Arenas
Viking Press

Adonis Garcia: A Picaresque Novel by Luis Zapata
Gay Sunshine Press, (1981)

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Bib Index - Resource Books - Ordering