For colored boys who have considered suicide when the rainbow is still not enough : coming of age, coming out, and coming home / edited by Keith Boykin.

Coming of age, coming out, and coming home

New York, N.Y. : Magnus Books, 2012.

xv, 333 pages ; 21 cm

First Magnus edition.

Israel Fishman/Stonewall Book Award Non-Fiction, 2013.

Introduction -- Growing Pains: -- Back to school / Craig Washington -- Guys and dolls / Jarrett Neal -- Pop quiz / Kevin E Taylor -- Bathtubs and hot water / Shaun Lockhart -- Strange fruit / Antonio Brown -- Family That Preys: -- Teaspoons of December Alabama / Rodney Terich Leonard -- House is not a home / Rob Smith -- Mother to son / Chaz Barracks -- I'm Coming Out!: -- Pride / James Earl Hardy -- Age of consent / Alphonso Morgan -- Luckiest gay son in the world / David Bridgeforth -- Coming out in the locker room / Rod McCullom, DeMarco Majors, Wade Davis, and Will Sheridan -- When I dare to be powerful / Keith Boykin -- For Colored Boys: -- To colored boys who have considered suicide / Hassan Beyah -- Mariconcito / Emanuel Xavier -- Chicago / Phill Branch -- Better days / Jamal Brown -- One day a DJ saved my life / Jonathan Kidd -- When The Rainbow Is Not Enough: -- No Asians, blacks, fats, or femmes / Indie Harper -- Alone, outside / G Winston James -- When the strong grow weak / Kenyon Farrow -- Faith Under Fire: -- Holy redeemer / Victor Yates -- Coventry, Christ, and coming of age / Topher Campbell -- Religious zombies / Clay Cane -- Preacher's kid / Nathan Hale Williams -- Love Is A Battlefield: -- I still think of you / Jason Haas -- Bad romance / Darian Aaron -- Afraid of my own reflection / Antron Reshaud Olukayode -- Just the two of us / Curtis Pate III -- Hey, you / Erick Johnson -- My night with the sun / Mark Corece -- Love your truth / B Scott -- Boys Like Girls: -- Night Diana died / Daren J Fleming -- Many rivers to cross / Andre St Clair Thompson -- Becoming Jessica Wild / Jose David Sierra -- In Sickness And Health: -- Umm-okay / Tim'm T West -- Thank you, CNN / David Malebranche -- Test / Charles Stephens -- Voice / Ron Simmons -- It's only love that gets you through / Robert E Penn -- Power To The People: -- We cannot forget / Victor Yates -- Poetry of the flesh / Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano -- Casualties of war / L Michael Gipson -- How do you start a revolution? / Keith Boykin -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors.