Randy Boyd’s Halftime Show
Scoring touchdowns despite the oddsby j. brotherlove
Poz Magazine spotlights author Randy Boyd, a five-time Lambda Literay Award Nominee, who continues to thrive and dream, despite having the AIDS virus for 23 years. At 46, he muses on his life:
“In the first half, I felt like a big black unathletic fag, a disappointment to my sports-loving family. In the second half, I evolved into an openly gay author living with AIDS, using the gift of writing to tackle homosexuality in sports.”
Read more on his blog with a link to a pdf of the Poz article. Also, read the Outsports interview in which Boyd discusses his gay sports novel, Walt Loves the Bearcat:
“Walt Loves the Bearcat is meant to resemble an amusement park ride that starts with familiar modes of transport (airplanes, cars, golf carts). Eventually, during the ride, the transport gets faster, the journey blurrier, the wheels come off and next thing you know, we’ve taken off from the rollercoaster tracks and are soaring through space, beyond our wildest imagination, which is exactly where the sports world needs to go in order to accept all athletes, regardless of who they fall in love with.”
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