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This Is For The Black Men Who've Contemplated Suicide ...
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography . Writings on the Wall . Ad Campaigns
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Though I had first heard of 'For Colored Girls' in the summer of 1975 when David and I would take a weekend trip to NYC to see Bette Midler's 'A Half Shell Review' and would discuss that, perhaps, we'd return the following summer to see the much talked about 'For Colored Girls' it was not until almost 20 years later, in the spring of 1994 that, for the first time, I'd see 'For Colored Girls' at the Church Street Theatre in WDC.
David, a Morman, from Utah would be fired from the FBI, in the late summer of 1975 for having homosexual relations with black men.
By some 20 years later, in the spring of 1994, and as a direct result of what had occured in the spring of 1992 I had already begun contemplating an ongoing documentary project that would creatively integrate my writings into a book. Which, based on my life expereinces as a gay black man, at some later date, I may would collaborate with others to develop into a stage production as well as documentary film. Once I'd see "For Colored Girls' at Church Street Theater ... |
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... in the spring of 1994, and as I walked back to my apartment which at 1500 Massachusetts Avenue was just a few blocks away, "This Is For the Black Men Who've Contemplated Suicide When That Rainbow Was Just Too Much ...!" would reverberate through my head. And almost like a chant ... the words would fall from my lips. Having already begun the project 'Spoken With My Tongue' self-portraits from 8 March and 5 October 1992 and hand images from 20 February 1992 would be integrated ... |
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Act 1, Scene 1, circa May 1992, would open with me crouched down ... in some holding cell, in Fairfax County, VA reflecting on the fact that, at that very moment, 'my other' but white counter part was in Chicago, with, yet, another black man ... who 'just like me' ... |
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when tha' rainbow was ... just too fuckin' much ...! |
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