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Robert Triptow

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Born	Robert James Triptow (1952-05-10) May 10, 1952 Salt Lake City, Utah
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist, Editor
Notable works	Gay Comix
Awards	Lambda Award for Humor, 1990 Special Achievement Award, San Diego Comic Con, 1989
Spouse(s)	William Blakely
http://roberttriptow.com

Robert Triptow (born May 10, 1952 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American writer and artist. He is known primarily for creating gay- and bisexual-themed comics and for editing Gay Comix in the 1980s, and he was identified by underground comix pioneer Lee Marrs as "the last of the underground cartoonists".

Career

A long-time resident of San Francisco, Robert Triptow was one of the earliest contributors to Kitchen Sink Press' anthology Gay Comix, beginning with issue #2. He succeeded Howard Cruse as editor of the series, editing issues #5 through #13 (1984–1991). During this time he edited the 1989 anthology Gay Comics, one of the earliest histories of the subject, which won the first Lambda Literary Award for Humor. He also co-edited the HIV-research fund-raising and educational anthology Strip AIDS U.S.A. (1988) with Trina Robbins & Bill Sienkiewicz.

As a journalist, Triptow has contributed to The Advocate, Bay Area Reporter, Frontiers, The Sentinel, and other West Coast LGBT publications.

In 2015, he released Class Photo, a wryly comedic graphic novel imagining short biographies for the individuals depicted in a 1937 school group photograph.

Bibliography

Books

• Gay Comics (ed.). New York: Plume; New American Library, 1989. 120p. ISBN 0-452-26229-1
• Strip AIDS U.S.A.: A Collection of Cartoon Art to Benefit People With AIDS. (ed. with Trina Robbins & Bill Sienkiewicz). San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1988. ISBN 978-0-86719-373-2
• Class Photo. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2015. 64p. ISBN 978-1-60699-886-1

Strip AIDS U.S.A

*see if you can look at the physical copy from galvan*

"Needs"

*image from triptow's website*

Class Photo

*book could get its own wiki page if I wanted to get real fancy*

Contributions

*add bizarre sex and intro to gay comics*

In addition to Gay Comix, his cartoon work has appeared in:

• Robert Kirby and David Kelly, editors, (2008) The Book of Boy Trouble 2: Born to Trouble, Green Candy Press. ISBN 1-931160-65-1.
• Camper, Jennifer, editor (2007) Juicy Mother 2: How They Met, Manic D Press. ISBN 978-1-933149-20-2
• Camper, Jennifer, editor (2005) Juicy Mother Soft Skull Press. ISBN 1-932360-70-0
• Gregory, Roberta (2004), Naughty Bits #40, Fantagraphics.
• Gregory, Roberta (1999), Naughty Bits #28, Fantagraphics.
• Gregory, Roberta (1998), Naughty Bits #27, Fantagraphics.
• Kinney, Jay, editor (1993), Young Lust #8, Last Gasp, ISBN 0-86719-253-4.
• Bocage, Angela (1993), Real Girl #6, Fantagraphics, ASIN B000IQUH6S.
• Bocage, Angela (1991), Real Girl #2, Fantagraphics.
• Bocage, Angela (1990), Real Girl #1, Fantagraphics, ASIN B000KSA71O.
• Robbins, Trina, editor (1990), Choices: a pro-choice benefit comic anthology for the National Organization for Women, Angry Isis Press, ASIN: B002E5WBKG.
• Leyland, Winston (1986), Meatmen #1, G. S. Press.

Awards

• The first Lambda Literary Award for Humor, in 1990, for the 1989 anthology Gay Comics.
• Special Achievement Award from the San Diego Comic Con in 1989 for Strip AIDS U.S.A.
  

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Black Lesbian Literature

Black lesbian literature is a subgenre of Lesbian literature and African American literature that focuses on the experiences of black women who identify as lesbians. The genre features poetry and fiction about black lesbian characters as well as non-fiction essays which address the issues faced by black lesbians in society. Prominent figures within the genre include Ann Allen Shockley, Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke, and Barbara Smith.

Black lesbian literature is characterized by its central focus on black women's experiences as they are shaped by interlocking systems of oppression like racism, sexism, homophobia, and class discrimination.

Overview

Black lesbian literature emerged out of the Black Feminist movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dissatisfied with the inability of both the feminist movement of the 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement to address the specific forms of oppression experienced by black women, these writers produced critical essays and fictional works which gave voice to their experiences, using Black Feminist theories like intersectionality as tools to carry out their analysis. Through this critical analysis, black lesbian writers and activists were able to use the genre to make necessary interventions in the normative ideologies regarding race, gender, and sexuality which emerged from these larger political movements.

More specifically, the genre allowed black lesbians to examine the homophobia that they encountered in nearly all of their political and community circles. Writer and activist Cheryl Clarke wrote essays like "The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community" and "Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance" which both explore the way that white male patriarchy and white supremacy create the gendered and racialized forms of homophobia that black lesbians experience.

One of the foundational texts of the genre is Ann Allen Shockley's novel, Loving Her. Published in 1974, Loving Her is widely regarded as the first novel to feature a black lesbian protagonist. The book follows the story of Renay, a black woman who leaves her abusive marriage to a black man to enter a relationship with a white lesbian named Terry. Loving Her is considered groundbreaking for its explicit portrayal of lesbian sexuality and it paved the way for black women writers to depict lesbian relationships in their writing.

Shockley followed the publication of Loving Her with two more books,The Black and White of It—a collection of short stories featuring various black lesbian protagonists, which was the first of its kind—and another novel, Say Jesus and Come to Me. Other works began to arrive in the early 1980s which featured black lesbian protagonists like Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple and Audre Lorde's autobiobragraphy Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. While both novels explored the development of their characters' sexuality, they also examined the characters' experiences as black women in a sexist and white supremacist society.

Notable works

Fiction

• Loving Her, Ann Allen Shockley (1974)
• The Black and White of It, Ann Allen Shockley (1980)
• Say Jesus and Come to Me, Ann Allen Shockley (1982)
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde (1982)
• The Color Purple, Alice Walker (1982)
• Living as a Lesbian, Cheryl Clarke (1986)
• The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez (1991)
• Coffee Will Make You Black, April Sinclair (1994)
• Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing, Catherine McKinley and L. Joyce DeLaney (1995)
• Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories, Lisa C. Moore (1997)

Non-Fiction

• Homegirls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Barbara Smith (1983)
• Black Lesbian in White America, Anita Cornwell (1983)
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde (1984)