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For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home

by Keith Boykin

Magnus. 2012. 333p. ed. by . ISBN 9781936833153. pap. $15.95.

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Columnist Boykin borrowed the title of Ntozake Shange's performance-poem and dedicated it to young gay men of color. This stirring collection of poems, reminiscences, and essays by a variety of writers brings to light the struggles they experienced at home as children and out in the world as young men.

Reviewed by Lisa N. Johnston , Mar 01, 2014

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