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    Different Worlds, Similar Truths

    Aug 11, 2020 4 minutes
    By Donald Padgett

    THERE’S A SLIVER of truth in the old adage that opposites attract, at least in the case of Brontez Purnell and George M. Johnson. Both Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto and Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends explore the meaning of queer Black identity, but their narratives reflect the different lenses through which these stories were experienced and retold.

    Johnson’s words can be as lyrical as they are jarring, often viscerally grabbing at the reader’s emotions in probably much the same way they seized the author as he wrote them. As a journalist, his talent for essays has been honed in Buzzfeed News, Essence, and elsewhere.

    Purnell is a also a journalist, as well as a musician, singer, dancer,

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