Best Black Gay Erotica [Paperback]

Darieck Scott (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 24, 2004

In a powerful collection celebrating sex between black men, Best Black Gay Erotica raises the standard for literary porn. From the slowly building heat of Reginald Harris’s love story “The Dream,” to the raw lust of Jay Russell’s “Rude Boys,” in which two tops at a sex club negotiate which of them will give it up, these stories serve up a rich feast of erotic imagination.

The narrator of Canaan Parker’s “One for the Road” recalls the particular skill that made his finest lover, Marco the Magnificent, famous on the streets. And Samuel R. Delany’s “The Sleepwalkers” is a paean to the heyday of gay sex in New York, when a night among the burly beer-swigging men of the Mine Shaft ended only at dawn. With contributions by Thomas Glave, Belasco, and James Earl Hardy, Best Black Gay Erotica presents some of the hottest and best-written erotica in print today.

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About the Author

Darieck Scott is the author of the novel Traitor to the Race. He teaches African American literature at the University of California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Cleis Press (November 24, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573442046
• ISBN-13: 978-1573442046
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #586,102 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost perfect, February 15, 2005

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Rashad Turner "Dr. Luv" (Harlem, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Black Gay Erotica (Paperback)

Cleis has been releasing black gay/lesbian titles over the past few years (Black Like Us, Vanishing Rooms, Time on Two Crosses) with much success, so it isn't surprising that they'd finally go where no other publisher has gone before with this first ever erotica collection by/for/about black gay men. Actually, it isn't, at least not 100%; one of the authors is white (not surprisingly, his story is the weakest), and the manner in which the book is being packaged (the back matter has a tease that utlizies terminology often associated with white gay men) leads me to believe they want non-blacks to pick it up. But I can't argue with the variety of voices featured or the distinct writing styles. And while it would have been nice if the author asked james Earl Hardy to contribute something new, it's fitting that that first sex scene between Pookie and Li'l Bit from B-Boy Blues would start things off. Things just get better, bigger, and hotter with each new story. With 'Kevin', Christopher David proves that he's definitely a writer to watch, and Reginald Harris' 'The Gift' is just as vivd and hypnotic as his poetry. This anthology couldn't have come along at a better time, what with black gay/bi/questioning men being sexually demonized in all forms of media, no thanks to all this nonsense about the down low. I can't wait for #2 to drop.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars first gay fiction i ever read....very tasteful, May 4, 2009

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mika "Mika" (north carolina) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Best Black Gay Erotica (Paperback)

i purchased this book as a christmas gift for my brother who is gay. I am not gay, but he called me and thanked me for this book and in doing so he went into such great details about how well-written and thought provoking these stories are that i had to borrow it and read it myself. While it didnt have me in the bathroom with lotion and tissue, i could see how a homosexual could easily use it for that purpose. However, what i liked most about this book is that the charactors and stories are so well developed that it is easy to forget that its intended to be gay erotica. It reads more like a charactor study to me.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ohhh, I really enjoyed these short erotic stories!!!!!, August 12, 2005

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steVando (Atlanta) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Best Black Gay Erotica (Paperback)

Nicely compiled and good selection of stories from the author. I did give it 5 stars because I encourage others to buy this, but I needed to read a better Foreword than what was done. It was like the author was in a hurry. Probably rightly so. In a hurry for you to read the juicy parts... Stank and The Pain Seeker are so erotic and a great introduction to the other pleasurable side of homoeroticism for nosotros.