These 3 Illustrated Ghost Stories Will Scare The Shit Out Of You!
If you like to be frightened, do yourself a favor and read these three short stories with the lights off!
Chapter One: We Will Kill Them All
Painting Theodor Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa Heavily influenced by comic books, monster flicks, kung-fu, sci-fi, horror and gore; I have a vivid imagination. At the same time, I make no claims to be a great intellectual fictional writer. Most times my written grammar and…
STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM, STILL HERE? – The Lack of Financial Support in the Black/Latino Gay Community
Let me begin by admitting that the issue I’ll be discussing is not limited to the American Black/Latino gay community. Lack of financial support affects people of all races and countries. However, I want to narrow this topic down to specific groups in order…
STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM, STILL HERE? – The Lack of Financial Support in the Black/Latino Gay Community 2
This is PART TWO of the article, please see PART ONE HERE. THE REASONS Any possible explanations I list would all be speculation on my part. It’s sort of like having puzzle pieces all laid out on a table but you had no idea what…
There Go My (Comic Book) Heroes!
“There goes my hero. Watch him as he goes. There goes my hero. He’s ordinary“ Chorus to My Hero by Foo Fighters from their 1997 album, The Color and The Shape NEWS FLASH! Two of Marvel comics’ most masculine heroes, Hercules and Wolverine,…
WATCH: Derrick L. Briggs Discusses Missing Masculinity in Media
Derrick L. Briggs has just posted a new Vlog via his ADTV YouTube Channel discussing the issue of Unbalanced Imagery of Black Gay Men in the Media. If you’re a follower of Cypher Avenue then you know this is a topic we touch on often….
CYPHER AVENUE’S BEST OF 2012 AWARDS
As we begin our first full week of 2013, we also celebrate all that we thought was awesome throughout 2012. This was a pretty fucking great year, I must say. We witnessed a crazy Presidential election, the beginning and end of The LA Complex…
In Memoriam – E. Lynn Harris
Everette “E.” Lynn Harris (June 20, 1955 – July 23, 2009) Openly gay, he was best known for his depictions of African American men who were on the down-low and closeted. He authored ten consecutive books to make The New York Times Best Seller list…
BOOK REVIEW: Brooklyn Gay Novel “Sons” by Alphonso Morgan
{rating} I don’t really know where to begin with my thoughts on this debut novel, “Sons” by Alphonso Morgan. It is a muddled, slow-moving, coming of age story that simultaneously makes you aroused, nauseated and bored. Set in Brooklyn in the 1990’s, the novel…
Richard Pryor Openly Dated A Transgender Woman
Pryor Convictions: And Other Life Sentences (by Richard Pryor & Todd Gold 1995) According to the late GREAT Richard Pryor; in his autobiograhpy, in his own words, he admitted to dating a transgender woman Also in the book Pryor states how he walked in on Miles Davis…
CYPHER AVENUE ESSENTIALS: The Messiah – A Novel by Lee Hayes
I’m an avid book reader, especially fiction. Unfortunately there are not gonna be too many novels written by gay/bisexual men of color endorsed by this website because many of them either perpetuate stereotypes, do not feature characters that we can relate with or, quite frankly,…
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