Sean Reynolds wrote a book:

Written as the first of a series, Dying for a Change (published by Suspect Thoughts Press, San Francisco, California, November,2007) is about a life (vs. a lifestyle) seldom written about; the African American LGBT community in urban American in 1965.

Dying for a Change is about love, friendship and religion set within the political climate of Chicago in 1965. It's about race, class, gender and an examination of African American LGBT life.

It's about Chan Parker, a lesbian and her best friend, Henrietta Wild Cherry a notorious drag queen who is rich as Blue Bonnet butter.

Dying for a Change, a myster caper, is a 1st. novel written by Sean Reynolds to be published by Suspect Thoughts Press, November, 2007.

Dying for a Change is set on the Southside of Chicago in 1965. Medgar was dead, JFK was dead, Malcolm was dead and it was ten years, almost to the day that Emmitt Till was found floating in a river outside Money, Mississippi with an anvil wrapped in bailing wire attached around his neck. When the south and west sides of Chicago were ready to pop like a pimple on a teenagers face. It was the Summer of '65 when all hell broke loose.

Dying for a Change is pre-Stonewall.  Written from the perspective of an African American lesbian.

I hope you enjoy the ride!

SPECIAL SHOUT OUTS TO...

To my sisters, who read the manuscript when it was still in diapers: Felicia Ward, San Francisco, Evelyn C. White, Salt Spring Island, BC, Rhodessa Jones, San Francisco, Jewelle Gomez, San Francisco.

To my brother, Kenn Reynolds, the best Publicist in Los Angeles publicrelationsplus@yahoo.com.

To Ian at Suspects Thoughts Press www.suspecthoughts.com who read the first chapter of this manuscript on the plane coming back from the Saints and Sinners LGBT Writers Conference (New Orleans) where we met and who brought Dying for a Change home, in so many ways.

And most of all to my girlfriend, Victoria Cameron who supported me when Dying for a Change wasn't even on paper.

about SEan Reynolds:

I am a Social Worker in the Office of the District Attorney in San Francisco, California. I am the Advocate in the Child Assault Unit where I work to achieve justice for abused children.

I am co-founder with Rhodessa Jones of the MEDEA Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women. For information about the MEDEA Project, go to www.culturalodyssey.org.

I was born on the Southside of Chicago in 1950 where I lived for 30 years. Chicago will always be in the center of my heart. 

I relocated to San Francisco in 1980. I still haven't found a good hot dog, good bar-b-q or a decent place to have my hair 'did.'

But San Francisco is a good town too. The weather suits my clothes.