Thursday, March 28, 2024

Gabrielle Union Options Memoir ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ For Television Development (Listen to Except)

Gabrielle Union attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 09, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California.
Gabrielle Union attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 09, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California.

*Gabrielle Union’s I’ll Have Another Productions has swooped up rights to develop George M. Johnson’s bestselling memoir “All Boys Aren’t Blue” as a series with Sony Pictures TV, where her company is under a first-look deal.

In his book, published April 28 by Macmillan, journalist and LGBTQ+ activist Johnson explores his childhood and adolescence growing up in Plainfield, NJ as well as his college years attending an HBCU in Virginia. From memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five to his loving relationship with his grandmother, to his first sexual experience, the young adult memoir depicts growing up under the duality of being black and queer.

The subject matter is personal to Union, who is a parent to a queer identifying daughter. She said, “Queer black existence has been here forever yet rarely has that experience been shown in literature or film and television. Being a parent to a queer identifying daughter has given me the platform to make sure that these stories are being told in a truthful and authentic way and George’s memoir gives you the blueprint for that and more. What I love about this book is that it not only offers a space for queer kids of color to be seen and heard but it also offers those who see themselves outside of that standpoint to be held accountable and help them better understand what it takes to truly have acceptance with someone who is considered other.”

Below, listen to an excerpt from the audiobook read by the author himself.

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