Tag: Brontez Purnell

Sarah Gerard and Brontez Purnell Win 2021 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize

Xandria Phillips and Calvin Gimpelevich have been named the winners of the 2020 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers

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Ten of This Year’s Standout LGBTQ Books

It was truly a year of queer literary excellence

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Brontez Purnell: On His New Book ‘The Cruising Diaries,’ Silencing the Critics, and the Joys of Writing About Sex

“I like writing in a way that can sometimes be dark yet still be generous to the human condition…”

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Brontez Purnell: Love, Compassion, and Rock & Roll

‘I basically wanted to do a zine that reflected what I was feeling at the time. With Fag School, I hadn’t really seen a zine or at least a personal gay zine that dealt with the difficult subject of gay sex with both humor and frank talk. It covered some real issues. Race, the condom code…”

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