In the episode he recalls his sister pointing out a gay bar on a drive through town. īoyd was born in 1962 and grew up in Indianapolis. Hear him discuss his work in this interview. Most recently, he published a collection of his writing in The Essential Randy Boyd (2018). All four novels were nominated for Lambda Literary Awards. They include Uprising (1999), Bridge Across the Ocean (2001), The Devil Inside (2002), and his 700-page opus Walt Loves the Bearcat (2005). Visit Boyd’s website,, to read more articles and essays by Boyd, as well as years’ worth of blog entries.īoyd’s novels are written from the perspective of Black men living with HIV/AIDS. Eric Marcus first became aware of Boyd through his essay “My Gay Agenda,” which was published in 2000 in the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review (now called the Gay & Lesbian Review ) read it here. Learn more about Randy Boyd in this interview with A&U magazine and read his oral history in the second edition of the Making Gay History book. Determined to blow up stereotypes about Black people, gay people, and people living with HIV, he had his work cut out for him. Randy Boyd’s “gay agenda” was to be radically open about who he was: a gay, HIV-positive writer-not the straight professional athlete he was always assumed to be.
