DARIECK SCOTT was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky, and lived there for all of six weeks before his parents, a young officer in the U.S. Army and a high school math teacher, whisked him off to Texas. This was the first of many relocations, as his father’s military assignments took the family to small towns in Georgia, North Carolina, Kansas, and abroad. The most powerfully formative and vivid experiences of his youth took place in Germany, where his family lived for six years. The semi-nomadic … Read More about About
Traitor to the Race
Traitor to the Race, published by Dutton in 1995, explores homophobia and self-hatred through the story of a biracial gay couple’s reaction to a brutal street murder. At the center of the novel is Kenneth, an unemployed actor in New York City who fills his empty hours with elaborate fantasies—some of which are acted out with his soap opera star boyfriend, Evan. But the walls of Kenneth’s illusory world collapse with the gang rape and murder of his cousin and boyhood friend,…
Praise for “Best Black Gay Erotica”
“Expect to burn yourself on this superhot collection culled by San Francisco writer and … professor Scott”
—TimeOut New York
Praise for “Hex”
“… This sci-fi mystical mystery fantasy romance … is a genre-blend that works magic. A follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Traitor to the Race, Hex reaffirms Scott as one of our brightest literary lights.”
—Out
Praise for “Traitor to the Race”
“Beautiful, complex, intelligent and provocative.”
—Lambda Book Report