In this interview, Berl Boykin discusses growing up in the south (Florida and Georgia) as a gay man. He extensively discusses sexual repression of gay men and women. He also talk about The Georgia Gay Liberation Front, the Civil Rights Movement, and Atlanta culture of the 1960s and 1970s. He opens and closes the interview by reading his own poetry.
Biographical note
Berl Boykin was born in 1944 in Miami, Fl. He is a poet, playwright, producer/director, and actor. He was a founding member of the Georgia Gay Liberation Front. He was a participant in the Atlanta underground newspaper The Great Speckled Bird in the 1970s.
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Citation
Boykin, Berl, interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, November 13, 2017, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
