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Transgressive, foulmouthed, and wildly funny, Brontez Purnell's 100
Boyfriends is a filthy, unforgettable, and brutally profound ode to
queer love in its most messy of variations. From one-night stands
to recurring lovers, Purnell's characters sleep with their
co-worker's husbands, expose themselves to racist neighbours, date
Satanists, and drink their way out of trouble, all the while
fighting - and often losing - the urge to self-sabotage. A horny,
punk love song full of imperfect intimacies, 100 Boyfriends takes
readers on a riotous journey through dirty warehouses and
gentrified bars, from dysfunctional houseshares to desolate farming
towns in Alabama. Drawing us into a community of glorious misfits
living on the margins of a white supremacist, heteronormative
society, iconoclastic storyteller Brontez Purnell gives us an
uncompromising vision of desire, desperation, race, loneliness, and
queerness that will devastate as much as it entertains.
A raw, dirty, hilarious, and often poignant cult classic, Johnny
Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger paved the way for a new
kind of queer writing that changed how we talk about sex,
relationships, drugs, identity, race, HIV, and what it means to be
gay in the 21st Century. Recounting the life of an artist and 'old
school homosexual' who bears more than a small resemblance to
author Brontez Purnell, Johnny Would You Love Me takes us cruising
in late night parks and bath houses, searching for sex and intimacy
in a newly gentrified city where even the gays are getting fancy. A
collection of short, hilarious, profound, and filthy vignettes,
Johnny Would You Love Me is a radical thrill ride through the
nuances of queer sex and queer love that shows truly what it means
to live on the fringes of a conservative society as a black,
working-class gay man.
When Deshawn hears news of his uncle's death, his riotous big-city
life in San Francisco is abruptly put on hold while he travels back
to his Alabama hometown for the funeral. While there, he's hit by
flashbacks of growing up queer and black in the '80s South, of a
youth filled with strong women, bewildered boys, and messed up
queers. Wading through prickly reminders of his childhood, of
sweltering Sundays, church, family, and the men he once knew,
Deshawn reconnects with his old self and the ghosts of his past. A
raw, dirty, hilarious, and heart-breaking novel about the
experiences that shape us, Since I Laid My Burden Down asks the
intimate question: who deserves love?
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