Just as he was: on the death of literary trailblazer E. Lynn Harris, author and Harris protege Terrance Dean remembers how he met the man who changed the state of black gay fiction.

The Advocate. The National Gay & Lesbian Newsmagazine › Nbr. 2009, January 2009

Author: Dean, Terrance

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Just as he was: on the death of literary trailblazer E. Lynn Harris, author and Harris protege Terrance Dean remembers how he met the man who changed the state of black gay fiction.

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IN THE SUMMER OF 1992, I'd just graduated from Fisk University in Nashville and broken up with my girlfriend. I went to Atlanta with some down-low friends to explore the burgeoning gay sc...

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