Randy Boyd

Walt Loves the Bearcat

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Produktbeschreibung

A black, gay, UCLA male cheerleader copes with the 1980s AIDS crisis by dreaming up a "whole other life" with a quarterback who becomes the first openly gay, superstar athlete. A Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Best Romance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: West Beach Books
• Seitenzahl: 740
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1066g
• ISBN-13: 9781931875264
• ISBN-10: 193187526X
• Artikelnr.: 64373389

Autorenporträt

Randy Boyd was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he graduated from North Central High School in 1980. After two years at the University of Southern California, Randy transferred to and graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Sociology in 1985. During college, Randy was both a yell leader at USC and a cheerleader at UCLA.Randy's four novels have been nominated for five Lambda Literary Awards. All four novels feature main characters who are black, gay and living with HIV/AIDS, just like Randy. His fiction has appeared in Blackfire magazine, as well as the following anthologies: Certain Voices (Alyson Books); Flesh and the Word 2 (Plume); Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (Other Countries); Flashpoint: Gay Male Sexual Writing (Masquerade Books); MA-KA: Diasporic Juks (Sister Vision); and Freedom in this Village: Black Gay Men's Writing 1969 to the Present (Carroll & Graf). His nonfiction has been featured in the Indiana Word, Frontiers, Au Courant, The Washington Blade, The James White Review, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Lambda Book Report, BeyondChron.com, and the anthology Friends and Lovers: Gay Men Write About the Families They Create (Dutton). Randy has also been a contributor to Outsports.com and the publications of the Black AIDS Institute.