Boy with Beer: A Black Gay Romance

By Paul Boakye

Karl is an upwardly mobile Black photographer who is tired of one-night stands and looking for something more. Donovan is twenty-one, Caribbean, guarded about his sexuality, and determined to prove his masculinity.

When the two men meet in London, attraction quickly becomes something harder to control. Over three encounters, separated by a month, sex, jealousy, race, class, and the fear of HIV force them to confront what they want from each other.

First staged in London in 1992, Boy with Beer is Paul Boakye's two-character play about Black gay love at a moment when both queerness and AIDS carried very different consequences.

Methuen Drama later published the play in Black Plays 3, and it is included in Bloomsbury's Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners.

This standalone edition includes production photographs from the first production and most recent staging, together with a foreword and afterword by Paul Boakye.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0993538916
• ISBN13: 9780993538919
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Paul Boakye Associates
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"