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In the newly released book Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known, author George M. Johnson blends essays, poetry and personal narrative to tell stories of Black queer writers, performers, and activists from 1920s. Many of their sexualities were obscured or forgotten throughout history. The book is illustrated by Artist Charly Palmer. Johnson joins host Ali Muldrow to discuss the lives of the people in the book and the complexities of the writing a book about hidden sexualities.

George M. Johnson is an Award-Winning Black Non-Binary Writer, Author, and Executive Producer. They are the author of the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Young Adult memoir All Boys Aren’t Blue discussing their adolescence growing up as a young Black Queer boy in New Jersey through a series of powerful essays. George was listed on The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2020. The Out 100 Most Influential LGBTQ People in 2021. And in 2022 was honored as one of the TIME100 Next Most Influential People in the World. Their second memoir We Are Not Broken was released in September of 2021.

Portrait photo by Vincent Marc  

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