Randy Boyd: 7 books

Race relations, living with HIV/AIDS, adolescent heartbreak, gay life, the healing power of dogs. Randy Boyd has written on these subjects and more on his blog, in numerous publications and in his four novels, which have been nominated for a total of five Lambda Literary Awards. Now, in one collection,...

Derek Mayfield is having the best year of his life and the hardest year of his life.He's just gone from overweight and closeted to a lean, loving, out and proud black gay man. But he also just found out he's HIV positive (in 1988).For a break from life, Derek takes off for...

LeRon, a young black man, is fed up with being called a sissy, having HIV/AIDS and rap music. After getting bad news from the doctor, he heads home, grabs his father's gun and holds his two older brothers hostage in their childhood bedroom. A standoff ensues as LeRon confronts his brothers (at...

A world-renowned pop music icon. A legendary basketball star. A billionaire cable-TV mogul.All rich. All famous. All closeted. All about to secretly join forces with a renegade band of activists to ignite the next wave in the gay rights revolution, a radical wave they hope will culminate in...

Kordell Christie is a respected black, gay businessman. Mario Cervantes is a childhood friend who mysteriously reappears out of the blue. On the surface, the two men get along great, but Mario's memory is a little hazy, his behavior a little strange and his dark secrets linked to a bizarre and...

Bradley and his lover Duke are ready to raise their own child. Their good friend Quasar (and her lover Lily) have agreed to surrogacy. The stage is set for this new extended family to begin, as soon as Bradley and Quasar conceive the child during a pre-arranged sexual encounter. But when the big night...

A lifelong romance between a white quarterback and black male cheerleader changes sports history forever when the quarterback becomes the first superstar athlete to come out in the prime of his pro football career.Walt is a white quarterback whose football career goes virtually unnoticed until...