What do you know about Gilda now that you didn’t know about her in 1991? This interview took place at the Horizon’s Foundation where Jewelle is the Director of Grants & Community Initiatives. She has also written a play based on the life of James Baldwin, Waiting 4 Giovanni, opening in August at the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco. Jewelle is currently at work on a second volume of Gilda stories. TGS continues to be taught in colleges and universities worldwide.

Two chapters of TGS were commissioned for performance by the Urban Bush Women Company and toured thirteen U.S. The Gilda Stories (TGS ) is a double Lambda Award winning novel that follows the life of an African-American lesbian vampire through the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries.

2011 marks the 20 th anniversary of The Gilda Stories (a new edition has been released by Firebrand Books). Her books include: Don’t Explain, Oral Tradition and Forty-Three Septembers. She experiences life as a black woman, but she has privilege as a vampire…”Īuthor, poet, playwright and activist Jewelle Gomez (JG) was born and raised in Boston, MA and has been a longtime resident of San Francisco. As a vampire she has power to overcome these situations, but she knows that other people don’t have that same privilege. J“As a black woman, Gilda recognizes situations that put her in jeopardy. Jewelle Gomez: The 20th Anniversary of The Gilda Stories

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