Attention should be paid …

… A poet who spoke to the black gay experience, and a quest to make him heard — The Washington Post. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

From 1981 till his death from AIDS in 1995, Hemphill captivated the D.C. arts scene. He was a focal point for what people were calling a second Harlem Renaissance, and one of the sole writers to articulate what it meant to be both black and gay during the 1980s and early 1990s.