{"product_id":"9781635901832-i-could-not-believe-it-the-1979-teenage-diaries-of-sean-delear","title":"Purnell Brontez - I Could Not Believe It The 1979 Teenage Diaries Of Sean Delear - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: A remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley 1979, written before the author would become one of L a's most influential artists of subsequent decades. When Sean De Lear died prematurely in Vienna in 2017, his friends discovered among other treasures an extensive diary kept at the age of fourteen. Still living with his Christian parents in the notoriously racist Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley Sean wrote almost every day about crushes and hustling waterbeds blackmail Donna Summer gloryholes racism and shoplifting gay porn. De Lear would go on to become the frontman for the Los Angeles punk\/powerpop band Glue. He was a punk musician visual artist intercontinental scenester video vixen party host marijuana farmer and sometime - collaborator of artists such as Kembra Pfahler and Vaginal Davis. De Lear's forgotten diaries capture a moment in Los Angeles underground and queer history when as his friend the writer Cesar Padilla notes It wasn t cool at all to be trans gay queer or whatever. Those words weren t even in the vocabulary. I Could Not Believe It Padilla continues is a raw fearless innocent gay Black kid's journey coming out into life at an incredible pre - AIDS period. It's not cognizant of being literature. It's as na ve and forthcoming as it gets. It wasn t written with the desire to be published so Sean didn t hold back. Sean's goal was to be true to himself.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: I Could Not Believe It The 1979 Teenage Diaries Of Sean Delear\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Purnell Brontez\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Semiotext (E)\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781635901832\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 184 Pages, 2 Black And White Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 5\/23\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Literature: History \u0026amp; Criticism","brand":"Purnell Brontez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49622266085681,"sku":"IN-G-9781635901832","price":15.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781635901832.jpg?v=1724701611","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781635901832-i-could-not-believe-it-the-1979-teenage-diaries-of-sean-delear","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}