Eric Marcus first became aware of Boyd through his essay “My Gay Agenda,” which was published in 2000 in the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review (now called the Gay & Lesbian Review ) read it here. Learn more about Randy Boyd in this interview with A&U magazine and read his oral history in the second edition of the Making Gay History book. Determined to blow up stereotypes about Black people, gay people, and people living with HIV, he had his work cut out for him. Randy Boyd’s “gay agenda” was to be radically open about who he was: a gay, HIV-positive writer-not the straight professional athlete he was always assumed to be.
