Brontez Purnell

Since I Laid My Burden Down

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Indie artist and punk queen Brontez Purnell’s long-awaited novel is an uninhibited exploration of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Feminist Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 123mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781558614314
• ISBN-10: 1558614311
• Artikelnr.: 47175518

Autorenporträt

Brontez Purnell has been publishing, performing, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s, Purnell's other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film, "I Want Your Love" (Dir. Travis Mathews, 2012). He was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum's L@TE program in 2012, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency, honored by Out Magazine's 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian's Goldie for Performance/Music. His previous books include one graphic novel (with illustrator Janelle Hessig) The Cruising Diaries (Gimme Action), and a novella Johnny Would You Love Me (if My Dick Were Bigger) (Rudos and Rubes).