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Books and Publications

 

Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud, by Juan Battle, Cathy J. Cohen, Dorian Warren, Gerard Fergerson, and Suzette Audam, available at:  

www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/blackpride.pdf

 

In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology, edited by Joseph Beam, Alyson Publications, 1988.

 

Sexuality and The Black Church: A Womanist Perspective, by Kelly Brown

Douglas, Orbis Books

 

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction, edited by Devon W. Carbado, Cleis Press, 2002.

 

Black Same-Sex Households in the United States: A Report from the 2000 Census, by Alain Dang and Somjen Frazer, available at:

www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/blackcensus/BCRNationalReport.pdf

 

A Whosoever Church: Welcoming Gays and Lesbians into African American Congregations, by Gary David Comstock, Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.

 

Race and Ethnicity of Same-sex Couples in California by Gary Gates, PhD; Holning Lau, Esq.; and R. Bradley Sears, Esq., available at:

http://www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/publications/Race_and_ethnicity_of_same-sex_couples_in_california.pdf

 

The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart, by Peter J. Gomes, William Morrow and Co., 1996.

 

Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men, edited by Essex Hemphill and Joe Beam, Alyson Publications, 1991.

 

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, by Audre Lorde, Crossing Press, 1984.

 

Coming Out While Staying In: Struggles and Celebrations of Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals in the Church, by Leanne McCall Tigert, United Church Press 1996.

 

Does Your Momma Know: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories, edited by Lisa C. Moore, RedBone Press, 1998.

 

False Promises: How the Right Deploys Homophobia to Win Support from African-Americans, by Nicholas Ray

www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/FalsePromisesReport.pdf

 

Black Gay Man: Essays, by Robert F. Reid-Pharr and Samuel Delany. New York University Press, 2001.

 

The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities, by Delroy Constantine Simms, Alyson Publications, 2001.

 

Coming Out in Communities of Color: African Americans, by the Human Rights Campaign

http://www.hrc.org/Content/ContentGroups/Publications1/AfricanAmericanResourceGuide.pdf