Jewelle Gomez

Jawelle Gomez (2008)

Jewelle Gomez (born September 11, 1948 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American author , poet and literary critic .

Life

Gomez was born in Boston in 1948 and grew up with her grandmother. After finishing school, she went to New York City , where she worked in the theater industry. She became a member of the Frank Silvera Authors' Workshop and worked for many years as a stage manager for Broadway theater productions . During this time Gomez participated in the lesbian and gay movement as well as in the women's movement . Gomez was a writer for the lesbian, feminist magazine Conditions . As a writer, she wrote seven books over the years. For the novel The Gilda Stories she received the Lambda Literary Award in the categories Lesbian Fiction and Lesbian Science Fiction / Fantasy . Gomez also wrote the theatrical adaptation of the novel Bones and Ash , the performance of which toured 13 US cities with the Urban Bush Women Company in 1996 . There is a collection of short stories in the book Don't explain . In the books Forty-Three Septembers and Oral Tradition: Selected Poems Old and New collections are comprised of personal and political stories and poems. Furthermore, Gomez wrote literary and film reviews for various magazines such as The Village Voice , The San Francisco Chronicle , Ms. Magazine and Black Scholar .

Jewell Gomez was included in the Daughters of Africa anthology published in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

Gomez was on the television crew of Say Brother (now Basic Black ), one of the first weekly television shows for African-Americans ( WGBH-TV Boston, 1968). Gomez was on the founding board of the LGBT organization Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in 1984. She was also a member of the feminist organizations Astraea Lesbian Foundation and Open Meadows Foundation . Gomez is also on the board of directors of the Cornell University Human Sexuality Archives and the James Hormel LGBT Center at the San Francisco Public Library . Gomez lives in California with Diane Sabin . The couple married in 2008 before Proposition 8 came into effect in California.

Jawell Gomez also had Iowa ancestors and attended a meeting of indigenous authors in 2008 .

Works (selection)

• Don't explain: Short Fiction , 1998
• Swords of the Rainbow , 1996, (in collaboration with Eric Garber )
• Oral Tradition: Selected Poems Old and New , 1995
• Forty-Three Septembers , 1993
• The Gilda Stories: A Novel , 1991
• Flamingoes and Bears , 1986
• The Lipstick Papers , 1980

Prizes and awards (selection)

• 1992: Lambda Literary Award : The Gilda Stories: A Novel

Web links

• New York Times: Article on the wedding of Jewelle Gomez and Diane Sabin
• NCLrights.org JEWELLE GOMEZ & DIANE SABIN Petitioners, In re Marriage Cases (PDF document, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cornell University Library: Guide to the Jewelle Gomez Interview, 1998
2. ↑ glbtq.com: Family Matters: An interview with Jewelle Gomez ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2007 
3. ↑ Black Scholar.org ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ national center for lesbian rights: JEWELLE GOMEZ & DIANE SABIN: Petitioners, In re Marriage Cases ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (PDF 150kB) 
5. ^ New York Times: Jewelle Gomez and Diane Sabin , October 31, 2008
6. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kim_shuck_jewell_gomez_l_frank_reid_gomez.jpg