A Black gay sci-fi legend talks dirty about desire, violence, and writing Wonder Woman.
A portrait of Samuel R. Delany, an award-winning African-American gay author whose credits include everything from science fiction to several issues of the Wonder Woman comic book. Using a range of experimental techniques and borrowed footage from Delany's home movies, Taylor captures his subject's thoughts on racism, violence, and his struggles with sexual identity.
Direction
Taylor's fragmented collage mirrors Delany's own narrative experiments
Production
Home movie footage creates achingly personal visual texture
Writing
Delany's spoken prose is denser than most scripted dialogue
Director
Fred Barney Taylor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Delany was the first Black author to win the Nebula Award; this documentary arrived during his critical renaissance in academic queer theory circles.
The Wonder Woman comic issues Delany wrote were famously never published due to editorial interference with his radical reimagining of the character.
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