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SUMMARY:MORE SCENES FROM A JAMAICAN 'GAY' CHILDHOOD  - Thomas Glave\, Visi
 ting Fellow\, Clare Hall College
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DESCRIPTION:Merging lyrical nonfiction\, memoir\, and the visual\, this ta
 lk focusses on the erotics of the author's youth\, homosexuality\, taboo a
 nd secret desires\, illicit romance\, and lively family interactions in Ja
 maica in the 1970s\, approximately a decade after the end of the British c
 olonial era\, the beginning of Jamaica's independence\, and the burgeoning
  of Jamaica's black power movement.\n\nTo reserve a ticket visit\n*http://
 more-scenes-from-a-jamaican-gay-childhood.eventbrite.co.uk/*\n\nThomas Gla
 ve is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories\,Words to Our Now: Imagi
 nation and Dissent(Lambda Literary Award\, 2005)\, The Torturer’s Wife (
 Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist\, 2008) and Among the Bloodpeople: Po
 litics and Flesh\, forthcoming from Akashic Books in summer 2013. He is ed
 itor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writin
 g from the Antilles (Lambda Literary Award\, 2008). His most recent work a
 ppears in The New York Times\, The Kenyon Review\, and in the anthologies 
 Kingston Noir and Love\, Christopher Street\, published in 2012. A foundin
 g member of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians\, All-Sexuals\, and Gays (J-FLA
 G)\, Glave has been Martin Luther King\, Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT and
  a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall College\, Cambridge.\n\nPhoto: Oslo Freed
 om Forum\n
LOCATION:The Meeting Room\, Clare Hall College\, Herschel Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9AL
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