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All Boys Aren't Blue A Memoir-Manifesto

George M. Johnson

A 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.

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The Matt Walsh Show

The host described the book as containing graphic descriptions of anal rape and incest, called it obscene, and argued that it should not be in school libraries.

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What's bothering MSNBC is that Moms for Liberty does not want a book called All Boys Aren't Blue, a memoir manifesto written by LGBTQ activist George Johnson to be available for children to check out...

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The host described the book as containing graphic descriptions of anal rape and incest, called it obscene, and argued that it should not be in school libraries.

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What's bothering MSNBC is that Moms for Liberty does not want a book called All Boys Aren't Blue, a memoir manifesto written by LGBTQ activist George Johnson to be available for children to check out from school libraries.

This is a book that includes descriptions of anal rape and incest, which are too graphic for me to read on the air.

Records of a child as young as nine checking out All Boys Aren't Blue from the library were cited, highlighting the book's availability to very young readers.

Joy Reid does not dispute anything about the content of the book or how obscene it is, and she doesn't concede that maybe nine year old children shouldn't be reading this.

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