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James Earl Hardy (born 1966 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York) is an American playwright, novelist, and journalist. [1] Generally considered the first to depict same-sex love stories that take place within the hip-hop community , his writing is largely characterized by its exploration of the African-American LGBTQ experience. [ 2 ]
Rakesh Satyal is an American novelist, best known for his Lambda Literary Award-winning debut novel Blue Boy. [1] Blue Boy won the 2009 Prose/Poetry Award from the Association of Asian American Studies and was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and Satyal was a recipient of a 2010 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Blue Boy (French: Jean le Bleu) is a 1932 novel by French writer Jean Giono. It tells the story of a family in Provence, with an ironer mother and a shoemaker father. The book is largely autobiographical and based on Giono's childhood, although it has many fictional anecdotes. An English translation by Katherine A. Clarke was published in 1946. [1]
The Blue Boy is a children's picture book by Martin Auer, with illustrations by Simone Klages. It was first published in 1991 in German as Der blaue Junge . Plot summary
Martin Auer (born 1951) – Now, Now, Markus, The Blue Boy; Steve Augarde (born 1950) – The Various, Celandine; Jonathan Auxier (born 1981) – The Night Gardener, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster; Esther Averill (1902–1992) – The Cat Club, The Fire Cat; Gillian Avery (1926–2016) – The Warden's Niece, The Elephant War, A ...
David James Duncan (born 1952) [1] is an American novelist and essayist, best known for his two bestselling novels, The River Why (1983) and The Brothers K (1992). Both novels received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers award; The Brothers K was a New York Times Notable Book in 1992 and won a Best Books Award from the American Library Association. [1]
B-Boy Blues is a 2021 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jussie Smollett (in his feature directorial debut) and based on James Earl Hardy's (who also co-wrote the script) 1994 book about the black LGBTQ+ community in New York.
Among the gay artists who have embraced The Blue Boy as a symbol of gay emancipation are Robert Lambert (a member of Les Petites Bon-Bons), Howard Kottler, and Léopold Foulem. [13] The Blue Boy was temporarily loaned to the National Gallery, London, and placed on view on 25 January 2022, a century to the day since it left the UK in 1922. It ...