G. D. interviews Author James Earl Hardy

James Earl Hardy, "...best selling B-Boy Blues series: B-Boy Blues (1994), praised as the first gay hip hop love story and prominently featured in Spike Lee's Get On The Bus; it's sequel, 2nd Time Around (1996); If Only For One Nite (1997); The Day Eazy-E Died (2001); Love The One You're With (2002); and A House Is Not a Home (2005). The sextet chronicles the relationship between a Buppie from Brooklyn and a homeboy-bike messenger from Harlem. The seventh installment in the series, "Is It Still Jood To Ya?” is featured in the best-selling anthology, Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris (2010). B-Boy Blues was a Lammy finalist in 1995 (Best Small Press Title) and has become required reading in many African American/multicultural literature and gay/queer studies college courses. Mr. Hardy contributed the new introductory essay to the reissue of the groundbreaking Black Gay anthology, “In The Life” (2008), and his short story, "The Last Picture Show." was included in the book Best Gay Erotica 2011..."

He also recently added playwright to his literary resume: his first theatrical production, “Confessions of a Homo Thug Star”--a one-man show about adult film star Tiger Tyson--recently won the Downtown Urban Theater Festival's Best Short Prize.  

(Info in “” obtained from the website aalbc.com “The #1 Site for African American Literature) 

http://aalbc.com/authors/jameshardy.htm