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In 1985, at age of 18, Ronald K. Brown, the African-American choreographer, decided he wanted to form his own dance company. He had been tol...

In the 1940s and 1950s, Pearl Primus (1919-1994)--dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, educator (she was professor of Ethnic Studies at Am...

The following is the introduction to a Q & A interview with the black gay playwright Philip Blackwell (now deceased) that appeared in th...

The Lavender Screen by Boze Hadleigh (Citadel Press, 256 pages), illustrated with photographs. Although Hollywood releases very few films t...

Spells of a Voodoo Doll by Assotto Saint (Masquerade/Richard Kasak Books, 405 pages) The late Assotto Saint (1957-1994) did not mince words...

Growing Up Before Stonewall: Life Stories of Some Gay Men by Peter M. Nardi, David Sanders, and Judd Marmor (Routledge, 177 pages). The aut...

After I learned of Assotto Saint's death, I played "Forever Gay," the song he and his life partner Jan wrote and performed, on...