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From KQEDE public radio in San Francisco, this is Forum.

I'm Scott Schaefer.

Growing up gay and black in small town, Ohio,

author Brian Broome learned to hide his sexuality

in a family and community where masculinity was everything. He survives an abusive father, poverty,

racism, and violence ending up in Pittsburgh, where he comes to terms with his drug and alcohol

dependence, slowly embracing his identity as a queer black man.

His new memoir titled, Punch Me Up to the Gods,

is being praised by the New York Times as a masterwork.

And Brian Broom joins us to talk about it.

That's next on Forum, right after the news.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Scott Schaefer.

In his new memoir titled Punch Me Up to the Gods, writer Brian Broome describes growing up as a closeted queer black kid with a violent

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