James Baldwin:
Iconic Queer Writer Series
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7 min readSep 18, 2020
This session’s gay writing celebrity is James Baldwin. Although he has been dead now for nearly 35 years, his writings on the subject of race in America remain extremely timely and relevant to issues raised by the current Black Lives Matter movement.
Baldwin’s life as a gay black man provides much food for thought, though his essays were much more focused on black issues than gay issues.