Gilda series

The Gilda series is a series of interconnected stories by Jewelle Gomez that focus on the life of the Black lesbian vampire, Gilda.

• "Joe Louis Was a Heck of a Fighter" (originally published in The Village Voice: Voice Literary Supplement, December 1986; republished in The Gilda Stories)
• "...Night" (originally published in The American Voice, no. 4 (Fall 1986); republished in The Gilda Stories))
• "No Day Too Long" (originally published in Lesbian Fiction: An Anthology, edited by Elly Bulkin, Watertown, Mass., Persephone Press, 1981; republished in The Gilda Stories)
• "Houston" (1996; published in Swords of the Rainbow (1996); republished in Don't Explain)
• "Chicago 1927" (2000)
• "Gilda Lives" (2000; published in Dark Matter, Warner Aspect 2000)

• Adapted for the stage as "Bones and Ash"