Randy Boyd's Blocks blog, Version 1

Author Randy Boyd's first blog

10/01/2008

Building Blocks, Spinning Tales

New to the Blocks? Check out the mind of a black author who loves sports, men and has been living with HIV/AIDS for 23 years and counting:
  • Disease-Free At Last
  • On Being HIV+ Like Magic Johnson
  • The Man Who Pegged Amaechi and Hardaway as Gay Speaks Out
  • Fields of Better Dreams
  • Would You Say That to Ryan White?
  • College Football Players: Lighten Up on Your Gay Teammates!
  • A Simple Cure for Homophobia
  • Interview with Poet Essex Hemphill (1957-1995)
  • The “Out” Pro Athlete Dream
  • One Homo's Deepest Sports Dream
  • Boy Jock Becomes Cheerleader
  • Randy Boyd's Bio
Labels: HIV-P.O.V., Pretty Pictures
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Four Novels, Five Lammy Nods

Randy Boyd's novels are available wherever most books and ebooks are sold. (Book covers below link to Amazon.com)

Uprising

Uprising
Lambda Literary Finalist: Best Men's Mystery, Best Small Press Title

Bridge Across the Ocean

Bridge Across the Ocean
Lambda Literary Finalist: Best Small Press Title

The Devil Inside

The Devil Inside
Lambda Literary Finalist: Best Sci-Fi

Walt Loves the Bearcat

Walt Loves the Bearcat
Lambda Literary Finalist: Best Romance

Popular Blocks

  • My Racist Gay World
    I n the second half of the 1980s, I was a twenty-something college grad with a decent paying job and a promising career. I was also a lonely...
  • Thankful for My Trikke
    L et it be known: I'm thankful for my Trikke. For my Trikke has given me a new life, the life I always dreamed of living, starring the p...
  • How to Survive Being HIV-Positive
    Sometimes, living with HIV/AIDS can be a real bitch. One of the reasons: people who use words like clean and disease-free to distinguish ...
  • Thankful for My Teeth
    I 've been told by two different dentists that I have good teeth, genetically speaking. That's quite a blessing, especially since I...
  • Behold the AIDS Monster!
    L iving with AIDS in America is like starring in your very own monster movie. You get to play the sick and depraved villain, while everyone ...
  • Road to a Better Me
    I used to feel bad for wanting to cheerlead, until I felt pride for how I became a cheerleader . I used to feel bad for being a fag, until ...
  • Boomer's Blocks
    When In Doubt, Pet the Dog , a periodic journal or memoir or blog thingy, now and forever at Randy Boyd's Blocks (.com). America's N...
  • Best Halloween Trikke Ride Ever!
    S ix months ago, I was a guy who bought a newfangled, three-wheeled bike he saw on an infomercial. I had neither seen nor heard of a Trikke,...
  • Dear Whoopi and the View: What Am I, Dirty?
    F or ten years, this male homo sapien has steered clear of The View the way any male homo in the TV jungle might. Then Barbara and her bit...
  • Blocks for Jocks
    In my blog column , Jockin': Homos in Sports , I write about a subject very dear to me. I ask questions, like, What Makes an Athlete Str...

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The Segregation Era lives on in My Racist Gay World. Click on the photo above to see what it looks like.

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      • What's Next for the AIDS Monster?
      • Stop Fighting AIDS Already!
      • The Monster's Favorite Monster Movies
      • A Halloween Treat, Rare Photos of Count Randolpho
      • A Halloween Treat, a-comin' & a-goin'
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