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About "A ll Boys Aren't Blue"
\nIn a series of personal essays\, a p rominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his c hildhood\, adolescence\, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. Fro m the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five\, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother\, to his first sexual relation ships\, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs fa ced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as wel l as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color\, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity\, toxic masculinity\, brotherh ood\, family\, structural marginalization\, consent\, and Black joy. Johns on's emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adul ts. All Boys Aren't Blue is his debut. (Source: iamgmjohnson.com)
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About George M. Johnson
\nGeorge M Johnson is an A ward-Winning Black Non-Binary Writer\, Author\, and Executive Producer loc ated in the LA area. They are the author of the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Young Adult memoir All Boys Aren&rsquo\;t Blue discussing t heir adolescence growing up as a young Black Queer boy in New Jersey throu gh a series of powerful essays. The book was optioned for Television by Ga brielle Union. As a former journalist\, George has written for major outle ts including Teen Vogue\, Entertainment Tonight\, NBC\, and Buzzfeed. In 2 019 was awarded the Salute to Excellence Award by the National Association of Black Journalists for their article &ldquo\;When Racism Anchors your H ealth&rdquo\; in Vice Magazine. George was listed on The Root 100 Most Inf luential African Americans in 2020. The Out 100 Most Influential LGBTQ Peo ple in 2021. And in 2022 was honored as one of the TIME100 Next Most Influ ential People in the World. Their second memoir WE ARE NOT BROKEN was rele ased in September of 2021. It received the Carter G. Woodson Award which r ecognizes books that &ldquo\;accurately and sensitively depict the experie nce of one or more historically marginalized racial/ethnic groups in the U nited States&rdquo\;. The book also received the Nonfiction Honor Book in the YA category from the International Literacy Association. In 2021 they wrote and Executive Produced the Dramatic Reading of All Boys Aren&rsquo\; t Blue starring Jenifer Lewis and Dyllon Burnside which received a 2022 Sp ecial Recognition Award from GLAAD. George is also a proud HBCU alum twice over\, and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. (Source: iamgmjohnson.com)
\nNOTE: The author will not be present at this eve nt.
\nSeptember 13\, 2023 - "All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. John
son
October 11\, 2023 - "Lawn Boy" by Jonathan Evison"
November
8\, 2023 - "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by \;Sher
man Alexie (Accokeek Library)
December 13\, 2023 - "Crank" by \;E
llen Hopkins
January 10\, 2024 - "Out of Darkness" by \;Ashley Ho
pe Perez
February 14\, 2024 - "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison (Spau
ldings Library)
March 13\, 2024 - "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah
J. Maas
April 10\, 2024 - "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" by \;
Jesse Andrews
May 8\, 2024 - "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Ste
phen \;Chbosky
June 12\, 2024 - "This Book is Gay" by \;Juno
Dawson