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
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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

  • Write the Writer
    Comment? Question? Friend? Media Request? Click here to email author Randy Boyd
  • Obama Cares
    President Obama isn't the only intelligent black man happy about the passage of the Health Care Reform Bill in the Senate. See why this...
  • Trikkers Love Trikking in Long Beach
    The following article appeared on Long Beach Trikkers website. T he urban beach town of Long Beach, California, got its Trikke on during La...
  • Guest Who's Coming to the Blocks
    S ometimes, a writer's too busy writing novels to write other things. Thankfully freaky deaky technology allows for a most fascinating ...
  • In Love with AIDS
    There are plenty of dating shows featuring mostly-white people searching for love, but what about a black man living with AIDS? Are my roman...
  • Little Boy, Big Sports Dreams
    "Here’s to the day when a kid can be honest with himself and the world from the moment he conceives of himself as a lover of men, and b...
  • Leaving My Footprint on Planet Earth
    Someday I'm gonna die, just like every descendant of the great apes before me. I'm not that good. I got skillz, but believe me, I k...
  • More than a Fourth Novel
    W alt Loves the Bearcat is much more than just a fourth novel for me. Walt Loves the Bearcat is my breakthrough, my masterpiece, the cul...
  • World AIDS Daydreaming
    I dreamed a dream today. I dreamed of a world that cares about people living with HIV/AIDS. I dreamed of Hollywood making movies where peop...
  • Riots and Remembrance
    The most popular post on Randy Boyd's Blocks, to date: Sometimes I Forget I'm a Nigger .

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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!
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      • A Halloween Treat, Rare Photos of Count Randolpho
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