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Name:
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Keith
Boykin |
Month: |
November 2003
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School: |
Dartmouth College, '87, Harvard Law, '92 |
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B.A.,
J.D. |
Title: |
Author,
Lecturer, Activist |
Keith Boykin is one of
America's leading commentators on issues of race and sexual orientation.
A frequent presence on
television, he is a former award-winning adjunct professor of government at
American University, former special assistant to President Clinton, Harvard
Law School graduate, popular lecturer, online columnist, and published author
of several books and articles.
Keith is author of the
Lambda Literary Award-winning book, Respecting the Soul: Daily Reflections for
Black Lesbians and Gays, and One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America,
which was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.
As Special Assistant to
the President of the United States, Keith was the highest-ranking openly gay
person in the Clinton White House where he helped to organize and participated
in the nation's first meeting between gay and lesbian leaders and a U.S. President.
Keith served for two and a half years as the Executive Director of the National
Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum, a nationwide nonprofit organization.
He has appeared on numerous
media programs, including CNN, Fox, NPR, BET's "Our Voices with Bev Smith,"
and "This Is America with Dennis Wholey," and he has appeared frequently on
"BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley." He has also been featured or quoted in articles
in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
St. Louis Post Dispatch, Tampa Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, and JET magazine.
His writings are also published
in several other books, including The Politics of Gay Rights (2000), Dangerous
Liaisons (1999), Gay Men at the Millennium (1997) and Atonement (1996), and
he also worked on the book, 100 Successful College Application Essays. He has
written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the St. Petersburg Times, Black Issues
Book Review, The Advocate magazine, and other publications. He writes a column
for Gay.com and is the founder of BLARE, an online magazine of Black LGBT literature,
film, music and art
A graduate of Harvard Law
School, Keith was a general editor of the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties
Law Review. Keith received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College,
where he was editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth daily newspaper, the oldest college
newspaper in America, and served as president of the corporation that owned
the newspaper.
He has traveled to eleven
countries and 48 of the 50 United States. He lives in New York.
Keith Boykin
P.O. Box 1229
New York, NY 10037
http://www.keithboykin.com
(212) 281-9449
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