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Book club: On the Same Page, Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends

Monday, 6/28/2021
7:00 - 8:00
Virtual Library

United States

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We will discuss our PRIDE On the Same Page selection, Brontez Purnell’s, 100 Boyfriends.

 

Brontez Purnell is a writer, musician, dancer, filmmaker and performance artist. He is the author of a graphic novel, a novella, a children's book and the novel Since I Laid My Burden Down. The recipient of a 2018 Whiting Writers' Award for Fiction, he was named one of the thirty-two Black Male Writers of Our Time by T: The New York Times Style Magazine in 2018. Purnell is also the frontman for the band the Younger Lovers, a cofounder of the experimental dance group the Brontez Purnell Dance Company, the creator of the renowned cult zine Fag School and the director of several short films, music videos and the documentary Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock. Born in Triana, Alabama, he's lived in Oakland, California, for more than a decade. 

 

Brontez Purnell in conversation with Alvin Orloff, June 1, 7 p.m. is available on the SFPL YouTube Channel. 

 

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On The Same Page

On The Same Page is a bimonthly city-wide read.

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This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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