- Collection:
- Big Joy Digital Collection
- Title:
- Malcolm Boyd interview, 2010-01
- Creator:
- Boyd, Malcolm, 1923-2015
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hinkle, Ian
Silha, Stephen
Slade, Eric - Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2010-01
- Subject:
- Spirituality
Sex
Experimental poetry, American - People:
- Broughton, James, 1913-1999
- Location:
- United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 34.05223, -118.24368
- Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Topics discussed: James Broughton as bubbly, exuberant, opinionated; Life as "theater of the absurd"; His kinship with James Broughton's approach to spirituality, "churchianity"; Combination of the gifts spirituality and sexuality; Reads Broughton poetry, including "Sermon," "Confession," "Thinking About Death"; Difference between appearances and reality; Sexuality is complex: "we're all quadruple-sexual"; Joel and James as role models; Ease with elderhood, importance of ancestry; Broughton as an outsider in poetry, film; Broughton's sexual energy as soul energy.
Malcolm Boyd (1923-2015) was an American Episcopal priest and author. He was active in the civil rights movement as one of the Freedom Riders in 1961 and as a minister. After leading in the Anti-Vietnam War movement, he "came out" in 1977, and became life partners with author Mark Thompson in the 1980s; they married in 2015. He wrote over 30 books, including the bestseller Are You Running with Me, Jesus? (1965), Take Off the Masks (1978), and Gay Priest: An Inner Journey (1986). - Local Identifier:
- W146_BoydM_201001
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/bigjoy/id/24
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Malcolm Boyd, interviewed by Stephen Silha and Eric Slade, January 2010, Big Joy Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 00:35:21
- Original Collection:
- Big Joy Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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