Keith Boykin is the editor
of For
Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When
the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home (Magnus, $15.95 pb).
For Colored Boys addresses longstanding issues of
sexual abuse, suicide, HIV/AIDS, racism, and homophobia in the African American
and Latino communities, and more specifically among young gay men of color. The
book tells stories of real people coming of age, coming out, dealing with
religion and spirituality, seeking love and relationships, finding their own
identity in or out of the LGBT community, and creating their own sense of
political empowerment. For Colored Boys
is designed to educate and inspire those seeking to overcome their own
obstacles in their own lives.
Keith Boykin is a popular TV commentator, inspirational speaker, and New
York Times best-selling author. Keith has provided political commentary
for CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC, and he previously co-hosted the weekly TV
series "My Two Cents" on BET Networks.
Educated at Dartmouth and
Harvard, Keith attended law school with President Barack Obama and
served in the White House as a special assistant to President Bill
Clinton, where he helped organize and participated in the nation's first
ever meeting between a sitting president and leaders of the LGBT
community.
Keith has traveled extensively across four continents,
and was appointed by President Clinton, along with Coretta Scott King
and Rev. Jesse Jackson, to the U.S. presidential trade delegation to
Zimbabwe.
He was a star on the Showtime television series American
Candidate and has since appeared on numerous national media programs,
including Anderson Cooper 360, The O'Reilly Factor, The Tyra Banks Show,
The Montel Williams Show, Judge Hatchett and The Tom Joyner Morning
Show.
A founder and first board president of the National Black
Justice Coalition, Keith has spoken to audiences, large and small, all
across the world. He delivered a landmark speech to 200,000 people at
the Millennium March on Washington, and he gave a stirring speech about
the AIDS epidemic in front of 40,000 people in Chicago's Soldier Field.
All
of Keith's first three books were nominated for a Lambda Literary
Award, including his third book, Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies and
Denial in Black America. Keith won the Lambda Literary Award for his
second book, Respecting The Soul, while his first book, One More River
to Cross, is taught in colleges and universities throughout the country.
Keith was an associate producer of the feature film Dirty Laundry, and he currently writes a weekly column for BET.com.
He
was a star on the 2004 Showtime television series American Candidate
and has since appeared on numerous national media programs, including
Anderson Cooper 360, The O'Reilly Factor, The Tyra Banks Show, The
Montel Williams Show, Judge Hatchett and The Tom Joyner Morning Show.
A
founder and first board president of the National Black Justice
Coalition, Keith has spoken to audiences, large and small, all across
the world. He delivered a landmark speech to 200,000 people at the
Millennium March on Washington and he gave a stirring speech about the
AIDS epidemic in front of 40,000 people in Chicago's Soldier Field in
July 2006.
Each of Keith's three books has been nominated for a
Lambda Literary Award, including his most recent book, Beyond the Down
Low: Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America. Keith won the Lambda
Literary Award for his second book, Respecting The Soul, while his first
book, One More River to Cross, is taught in colleges and universities
throughout the country.
Keith is an associate producer of the 2007
feature film Dirty Laundry and is working on his fourth book. Born and
raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Keith currently lives in New York City.
