Keith Boykin is a dynamic new voice in American media, politics and literature. He is a host of the BET television show My Two Cents, a New York Times best-selling author of three books, and a frequent political commentator on CNN. Educated at Dartmouth and Harvard, Keith attended law school with U.S. Senator Barack Obama, and in his work and travel across the globe, he has met with everyone from Bill Clinton to Nelson Mandela.

A former White House aide to President Clinton, Keith was once the highest-ranking openly gay person in the Clinton White House. He also helped to organize and participated in the nation's first ever meeting between a sitting
U.S. president and leaders of the gay community. Each of Keith's three books has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, including his most recent book, Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America. Keith won the Lambda Literary Award for his second book, Respecting The Soul, while his first book, One More River to Cross, is taught in colleges and universities throughout the country.

Keith has spoken to audiences, large and small, all across the world. He delivered a landmark speech to 200,000 people at the Millennium March on Washington and he gave a stirring speech about the AIDS epidemic in front of 40,000 people in
Chicago's Soldier Field for the opening ceremonies of the 2006 Gay Games.

In 2004, Keith launched his media career as a star on the Showtime television series "American Candidate." Since then, you may have seen him on "The Montel Williams Show," "Anderson Cooper 360," "The O'Reilly Factor," "Tony Brown's Journal" or "The Dennis Miller Show." Or you may have heard him on "The Tom Joyner Morning Show," National Public Radio or on Sirius Satellite Radio, where he served as a frequent guest host of the "Michelangelo Signorile Show." Keith has appeared on almost every major broadcast TV outlet, including CBS, CNN, VH1, BET, LOGO and Fox News. Keith has also appeared in every major American newspaper, including the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and Wall Street Journal. He has been featured in Essence, JET and VIBE magazines, and on the cover of several publications including A&U, Out and The Advocate. Last year he was selected as one of The Advocate Magazine's 10 "people of the year" and as one of Instinct Magazine's 25 "leading men" of 2005. In 2004 and again in 2006, he was designated as one of Out Magazine's 100 most intriguing people.

Currently an associate producer of the new feature film "Dirty Laundry" (2007), Keith is busy writing a new book and contines to write daily commentary on his influential web site, keithboykin.com.  He lives with his partner, Nathan Hale Williams, in New York City.

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