Uncle Bobby's Wedding with Brendan Gillett and Sarah S. Brannen

The book that showed you what a positive queer future could be. And then literally came true. Today we meet Brendan Gillett and we’re talking about the queer book that saved his life: Uncle Bobby"s Wedding by Sarah S. Brannen. And Sarah joins us for the conversation! Brendan is a high school English teacher in Brooklyn, New York. He works with English language learners to create poetry, picture books, cooking blogs, and literary analysis essays in every language they know. When he"s not teaching, he"s writing his own queer stories, poetry, and research essays about queer history. He lives with his illustrator husband and their cat, Pigeon. Sarah S. Brannen is the illustrator of the Robert F. Sibert Honor book Summertime Sleepers and the author of Uncle Bobby"s Wedding, named one of the 100 best children"s books of the last 100 years by Booktrust. Sarah has written and illustrated A Perfect Day, Madame Martine, and Madame Martine Breaks the Rules. Miles Comes Home, a companion book to Uncle Bobby"s Wedding, came out last November. And her forthcoming book Lolly on the Ice is now available to pre-order. In Uncle Bobby"s Wedding, when Uncle Bobby announces that he and "his friend" Jamie are getting married everyone is happy -- except Chloe. After a magical day with Uncle Bobby and his boyfriend, Jamie, Chloe realizes she"s not losing an uncle, but gaining one. Connect with Brendan and Sarah instagram: @mrbrendangillett website: brendangillett.com website: sarahbrannen.com instagram: @sarahsbrannen bluesky: @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social Our Bookshop Visit our Bookshop for new releases, current bestsellers, banned books, critically acclaimed LGBTQ books, or peruse the books featured on our podcasts: bookshop.org/shop/thisqueerbook Buy Uncle Bobby"s Wedding: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781499810080 Buy Miles Comes Home: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781499814736 Pre-order Lolly on the Ice: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9780593711828 Become an Associate Producer! Become an Associate Producer of our podcast through a $20/month sponsorship on Patreon! A professionally recognized credit, you can gain access to Associate Producer meetings to help guide our podcast into the future! Get started today: patreon.com/thisqueerbook Credits Host/Founder: John Parker Executive Producer: Jim Pounds Associate Producers: Archie Arnold, K Jason Bryan and David Rephan, Bob Bush, Natalie Cruz, Jonathan Fried, Paul Kaefer, Joe Perazzo, Bill Shay, and Sean Smith Patreon Subscribers: Stephen D., Terry D., Stephen Flamm, Ida Göteburg, Thomas Michna, Sofia Nerman, and Gary Nygaard. Creative and Accounting support provided by: Gordy Erickson Quatrefoil Library Quatrefoil has created a curated lending library made up of the books featured on our podcast! If you can’t buy these books, then borrow them! Link: https://libbyapp.com/library/quatrefoil/curated-1404336/page-1 Support the show