For December's Banned Books Book Club we are reading All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson. This book was banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, profanity, and because it was considered to be sexually explicit. (Learn more at Banned Books Week and American Library Association).
Meet at Explore Booksellers, just two blocks from the library.
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young -adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.