Pt. 1. When I think of home. Sacrifice / Adrian Stanford
The jazz singer / Charles Henry Fuller
Daddy lied / Rory Buchanan
A first affair / Charles R. P. Pouncy
The book of Luke / Guy Mark Foster
Letter to Gregory / Alan E. Miller
Adelphus King / John Keene, Jr.
In my own space / Calvin Glenn
Maybelle's boy / Lamont B. Steptoe
At 36 / Charles Harpe
Commitments / Essex Hemphill
Pt. 2. Baby I'm for real. Comfort / Don Charles
Safe harbour / David Frechette
Names and sorrows / D. Rubin Green
Couch poem / Donald Woods
Summer chills / Rory Buchanan
At the club (excerpts ) / Alan E. Miller
In the darkness, fuck me now / Adrian Stanford
The tomb of sorrow / Essex Hemphill
Remembrance of Rittenhouse Square / Adrian Stanford
Hey, brother, what's hap'nin'? / Cary Alan Johnson
Jailbait / Don Charles
What do I do about you? / Donald Woods
Obi's story / Cary Alan Johnson
Brothers loving brothers / Vega

Pt. 3. Hold tight, gently. When my brother fell / Essex Hemphill
It happened to me / Roger V. Pamplin, Jr.
Letter to Roger / Deryl K. Deese
"Non je ne regrette rien" / David Frechette
The Scarlet Letter, revisited : a very different AIDS diary / Water Rico Burrell
Hooked for life / Assotto Saint
The worst of it / Craig A. Reynolds
Remembrance / Kenneth McCreary
Aunt Ida pieces a quilt / Melvin Dixon
Hope against hope / Craig G. Harris
For colored boys who have considered / Bobby Smith
Brother can you spare some time? / Joseph Beam
Prescription / Donald Woods
Pt. 4. The absence of fear. Psalm for the ghetto / Adrian Stanford
True confessions : a discourse on images of black male sexuality / Isaac Julien and Kobena Mercer
Looking for Langston : an interview with Isaac Julien / Essex Hemphill

Undressing icons / Essex Hemphill
James Baldwin : not a bad legacy brother / Joseph Beam
James Baldwin (1924-1987) / Carlyle R. Black
Tongues untied : an interview with Marlon Riggs / Ron Simmons
Tongues untied / Marlon Riggs
The absence of fear : an open letter to a brother / Reginald T. Jackson
Some thought on the challenges facing black gay intellectuals / Ron Simmons
Toward a black gay aesthetic : signifying in contemporary black gay literature / Charles I. Nero
Black macho revisited : reflections of a SNAP! queen / Marlon Riggs
In an afternoon light / Essex Hemphill
Making ourselves from scratch / Joseph Beam
Books, journals and periodicals by black gay authors and publishers / Robert Reid-Pharr.