Bell, Alan

Bell took his first editing credit on his junior high school newspaper. Since then, he has edited Gaysweek, New York's first lesbian and gay weekly newspaper; Kujisource, a black AIDS newsletter; and several magazines for the black lesbian and gay community, most notable BLK and Blackfire. For six years he was a film critic for the Los Angeles Sentinel, a mainstream black weekly. His film criticism has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Wearing a somewhat different hat, he founded Black Jack, the first commercial black sex and social party club. Alan is a graduate of UCLA, the Univer...