David Rees, ‘Sprawling Giant’, November 15-28, 1979, p. 23 (a very interesting about David Rees here:

https://specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2022/02/15/my-growing-acceptance-of-myself-as-a-gay-man-was-freeing-me-as-a-writer-a-new-display-about-the-writer-david-rees/)

Ree’s reviews Just Above My Head. ‘It’s a vast (six hundred pages), shapeless, ecstatic, hysterical, savage, quite humourless, totally absorbing survey of four people’s lives — all American blacks — over the past thirty years, with a huge supporting cast, and it reappraises or touches on almost every theme Baldwin has ever written about: revivalist Christianity, Gospel, music, gay and straight love and sex, black anger and black power (or the lack of it) and, more than anything else, the complex shifting surfaces of existence in urban America’. Rees continues: ‘All the gay scenes are splendid, but there are too few of them; and Baldwin — who is, after all, in an excellent position to do this — fails to draw any parallels between black oppression and gay oppression.’