Flamboyants:
The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known
The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known
From the bestselling author of All Boys Aren't Blue comes an empowering set of essays about Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance
In Flamboyants, George M. Johnson celebrates writers, performers, and activists from 1920s Black America whose sexualities have been obscured throughout history. Through 14 essays, Johnson reveals how American culture has been shaped by icons who are both Black and Queer – and whose stories deserve to be celebrated in their entirety.
Interspersed with personal narrative, powerful poetry, and illustrations by award-winning illustrator Charly Palmer, Flamboyants looks to the past for understanding as to how Black and Queer culture has defined the present and will continue to impact the future. With candid prose and an unflinching lens towards truth and hope, George M. Johnson brings young adult readers an inspiring collection of biographies that will encourage teens today to be unabashed in their layered identities.
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All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson
We Are Not Broken
George M. Johnson
A Queer History of the United States for Young People
Michael Bronski
Queer: A Graphic History
Meg-John Barker
Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance
Cary Wintz (ed.)
The Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance
Carole Marks & Diana Edkins