Roi Barnard

Roi Barnard has led quite the life over the last 80 plus

years being born in Rural North Carolina in the 1940's,

discovering he was gay, and escaping to the big city

(Washington, DC).  He hid his identity as a gay man

working for the FBI and other Federal Agencies and

came out to the world while modeling and running

salons and other businesses in Washington, DC with

his partner Charles Stinson in Woodley Park. He lost

him, his employees, many he knew and almost himself

in the AIDS crisis of the 1980’s. In the 1990's he

survived the aftermath, found new love, peace, and

rebirth. He writes and lives to share a vision of hope to

all people who struggle with their identity, life, and a

desire for a better tomorrow. Roi lives, works, and

writes from his sanctuary in Hockessin, Delaware.