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BEIN 2018 5063: "First printing: October 1986" on title page verso. Paperbound. Autograph: Samuel R. Delany, Seep. 185. Presentation inscription from Joseph Beam to Samuel R. Delany. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.

BEIN 2018 5261: "Second printing: July 1989" on title page verso. Paperbound. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.

Stepping out. The boy with beer / Melvin Dixon

With my head held up high / Gilberto Gerald

Cut off from among their people. On not being white / Reginald Shepherd

Beautiful blackman / Blackberri

Don't turn your back on me / Stephan Lee Dais

Cut off from among their people / Craig G. Harris

Creating community. Why a black gay church? / James S. Tinney

A light that failed / James Charles Roberts

Creating ourselves : an open letter / Daniel Garrett

Sister Lesbos / Donald W. Woods

Brother/father/lover/son. Isn't it funny / Essex Hemphill

Better days / Essex Hemphill

Cordon Negro / Essex Hemphill

Discharge USN '63 / Oye Apeji Ajanaku

Protest poem / Brad Johnson

The buddy system / Brad Johnson

Getting your rocks off / Melvin Dixon

Serious moonlight / Essex Hemphill

Subway trilogy / Donald W. Woods

19 a poem about Kenny : portrait of a hard rock / Jerry Thompson

I want to love you / Craig A. Reynolds

Passion / Sidney Brinkley

The hitter / Brad Johnson

Weekend plans / Craig G. Harris

Etymology : a father's gift / Melvin Dixon

A father's need, a parent's desire / A. Billy S. Jones

When I stopped kissing my father / Philip Robinson

Color him father : an interview / Joseph Beam

A poem for Eric / Donald W. Woods

Speaking for ourselves. Emmett's story : Russell County, Alabama / Joseph Beam

Blackberri : singing for our lives / Bernard Branner

Samuel R. Delany : the possibility of possibilities / Samuel R. Delany and Joseph Beam

Bruce Nugent : Bohemian of the Harlem renaissance / Charles Michael Smith

Stepping into tomorrow

. For my own protection / Essex Hemphill

By the year 2000 / Max C. Smith

Brother to brother : words from the heart / Joseph Beam

Risin' to the love we need / Assotto Saint.

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