Overview
When Sean DeLear died prematurely in Vienna in 2017, his friends discoveredāamong other treasuresāan 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.Ā
DeLear 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.Ā
DeLearās forgotten diaries capture a moment in Los Angeles underground and queer history when, as his friend the writer Cesar Padilla notes, āIt wasnāt cool at all to be trans, gay, queer or whatever. Those words werenāt even in the vocabulary.ā I Could Not Believe It, Padilla continues, āis a raw fearless innocent gay Black kidās journey coming out into life at an incredible pre-AIDS period. Itās not cognizant of being literature. Itās as naĆÆve and forthcoming as it gets. It wasnāt written with the desire to be published so Sean didnāt hold back. Seanās goal was to be true to himself.ā
This book title, I Could Not Believe It (The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear), ISBN: 9781635901832, by Sean DeLear, Brontez Purnell, Michael Bullock, Cesar Padilla, published by MIT Press (March 14, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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