Keith Boykin,La Marr Jurelle Bruce,Clay Cane,Mark Corece,Frank Roberts,Antonio Brown,Jamal Brown,Topher Campbell,Wade Davis,Kenyon Farrow,Daren J. Fleming,L. Michael Gipson,Jason Haas,James Earl Hardy,Indie Harper,Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano,G. Winston James,Erick Johnson,Jonathan Kidd,Rodney Terich Leonard,Shaun Lockhart,DeMarco Majors,David J. Malebranche,Rod McCullom,Alphonso Morgan,Jarrett Neal,Antron Reshaud Olukayode,Curtis Pate III,Robert E. Penn,B. Scott,Will Sheridan Jr.,JosÃ© David Sierra,Ron Simmons,Rob  Smith,Charles Stephens,Kevin E. Taylor,AndrÃ© St. Clair Thompson,Craig Washington,Tim'm T. West,Nathan Hale Williams,Emanuel Xavier,Victor Yates,Chaz Barracks,Hassan Beyah,Phill Branch,David Bridgeforth,Darian Aaron
In 1974, playwright Ntozake Shange published For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. The book would go on to inspire legions of women for decades and would later become the subject and title of a hugely popular movie in the fall of 2010. While the film was selling out movie theaters, young black gay men were literally committing suicide in the silence of their own communities.,When a young Rutgers University student named Tyler Clementi took his own life after a roommate secretly videotaped him in an intimate setting with another young man, syndicated columnist and author Dan Savage created a YouTube video with his partner Terry to inspire young people facing harassment. Their message, It Gets Better, turned into a popular movement, inspiring thousands of user-created videos on the Internet. Savage's project targeted people of all races, backgrounds and colors, but Boykin has created something special "for colored boys.",The new book, For Colored Boys, addresses longstanding issues of sexual abuse, suicide, HIV/AIDS, racism, and homophobia in the African American and Latino communities, and more specifically among young gay men of color. The book tells stories of real people coming of age, coming out, dealing with religion and spirituality, seeking love and relationships, finding their own identity in or out of the LGBT community, and creating their own sense of political empowerment. For Colored Boys is designed to educate and inspire those seeking to overcome their own obstacles in their own lives.
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For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home