Brontez Purnell at "Queer Is Black"

Brontez Purnell has been publishing, performing and curating in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 10 years. He is the author of the cult zine Fag School, frontman for his band The Young Lovers and co-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-2000's, Purnell just published his first novella Johnny Would You Love Me (If My Dick Were Bigger) with Rudos and Rubes and will publish a second novel, Since I Laid My Body Down..., with the Sister Spit imprint of City Lights Books. He has currently been awarded the Creative Work Fund to begin work on a documentary about the life of the late Black experimental Bay Area choreographer Ed Mock. 

Brontez will read from Johnny Would You Love Me If... at Perfectly Queer on Mon., Feb. 8, 7pm at Books Inc. Castro. For more info, go to facebook.com/events/216649808674293/. For more on Johnny Would You Love Me If..., see last gasp.com/d/42243/