PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 24 2024

Flamboyants celebrates writers, performers, and activists from 1920s Black America whose sexualities have been obscured throughout history. Through 14 essays, Johnson reveals how American culture has been shaped by icons who are both Black and Queer – and whose stories deserve to be celebrated in their entirety. Flamboyants looks to the past for understanding as to how Black and Queer culture has defined the present and will continue to impact the future. An inspiring collection of biographies, interspersed with personal narrative and poetry, that will encourage teens today to be unabashed in their layered identities.