[4][1][5] Grace returned to New England before she was 14, when her father died, and she was married to John E. Morandus, who was half-Black and half-Wampanoag[6] and a great nephew of Massasoit, the sachem for whom Massachusetts was named.

[7] Growing up in Boston in the 1950s and 1960s, Gomez was shaped socially and politically by the close family ties with her great-grandmother, Grace, and grandmother Lydia.

[13] This novel has been in print since 1991 and reframes traditional vampire mythology by taking a lesbian feminist perspective; it is an adventure about an escaped slave who comes of age over two hundred years.

According to scholar Elyce Rae Helford, "Each stage of Gilda's personal voyage is also a study of life as part of multiple communities, all at the margins of mainstream white middle-class America.

Each of these collections feature Gomez' episodic approach, which John Howard has argued is a means of demonstrating the "linkages between current-day freedom struggles and the social/ political movements of prior generations.

[19] Gomez has written literary and film criticism for numerous publications including The Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle, Ms. and The Black Scholar.

[21] Over the past 25 years she has been frequently interviewed in periodicals and journals, including a September 1993 Advocate article where writer Victoria Brownworth[22] discussed her writing origins and political interests.

[23] Gomez has also written a comic novel, Televised, recounting the lives of survivors of the Black Nationalist movement, which was excerpted in the 2002 anthology Gumbo,[24] edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris.

She authored a play about James Baldwin, Waiting For Giovanni, in 2010, in collaboration with Harry Waters Jr., an actor and professor in the theatre department at MacAlester College.

Gomez wrote the play Leaving the Blues, about singer Alberta Hunter, which premiered in 2017 at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center.

[30] Gomez contributed to Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times,[31] edited by Carolina De Robertis and published by Vintage Books in 2017.

The group, co-founded by Andrea Gillespie and Diane Sabin, was designed to educate lesbians who were culturally miseducated—as women—about the use of money and benefits of philanthropy.

[34] The case was brought to the courts by the City Attorney of San Francisco, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).