“Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call“ Book Reading and Reception

A book signing, reading, and reception commemorating Bolder Than Out conference. Brought to you by AFC and CJR. This event will feature one of the editors of the book, Charles Stephens. This event is free and open to the public. Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam's Call edited by Stephen G. Fullwood and Charles Stephens was born out of a series of conversations, panel discussions, debates, and dinners with friends, colleagues and comrades over the years, assessing the impact and legacy of Joseph Beam and the writers of the In the Life generation. This anthology aims to bring that dazzling history of the black gay arts movement of the 1980s front and center to contemporary Black gay life. Black Gay Genius consists of writers, scholars, and activists responding to In the Life and the influence of Joseph Beam. This text celebrates with those that remember and know, and introduces to the ones that don't, to this important, unstudied literary legacy.