Hostage: A Short Story
Description
LeRon, a young black man, is fed up with being called a sissy, having HIV/AIDS and rap music. After getting bad news from the doctor, he heads home, grabs his father's gun and holds his two older brothers hostage in their childhood bedroom. A standoff ensues as LeRon confronts his brothers (at gunpoint) and tries to hold them accountable for making him a sissy and being afraid of him and his virus. And rap music. A short story originally published in the 1991 anthology, "Certain Voices," edited by Darryl Pilcher.
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Randy Boyd was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, and graduated from North Central High School in 1980. After two years at the University of Southern California, he transferred to UCLA, earning a B.A. in Sociology in 1985. During college, he was a yell leader at USC and a cheerleader at UCLA.
Randy began writing professionally at age twenty through an early career in broadcast network promotion. His novels feature main characters who are black, gay, and living with HIV/AIDS, and have earned five Lambda Literary Award finalist honors.
His fiction has appeared in Blackfire and in the anthologies Certain Voices (Alyson Books), Flesh and the Word 2(Plume), Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (Other Countries), Flashpoint: Gay Male Sexual Writing(Masquerade Books), MA-KA: Diasporic Juks (Sister Vision), and Freedom in this Village: Black Gay Men's Writing 1969 to the Present (Carroll & Graf).
His nonfiction has been featured in Art and Understanding, BeyondChron.com, The Washington Blade, The Lambda Book Report, Friends and Lovers: Gay Men Write About the Families They Create (Dutton), Frontiers, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The James White Review, Au Courant, and The Indiana Word.
He has also contributed to Outsports.com and the publications of the Black AIDS Institute.
