This Queer Book Saved My Life
Fans of On Being and Los Culturistas love this 2024 GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Podcast. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Greg Louganis, Becky Albertalli, and so many more, guests from across the rainbow tell these authors how their books helped them overcome alienation, gender dysphoria, familial homophobia, and being outed. Essayist and Lambda Literary Fellow John Parker hosts the conversations with a gentle and energetic style, standing in as conversational partner for posthumous authors. Stay tuned to off-weeks which features new episodes of 7 Minutes in Book Heaven and The Gaily Show.
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I was combating homophobia against one of the most powerful institutions in the world. Today we meet Tim Jon Semmerling and we’re talking about the queer book that saved his life: The Deviant"s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini. Tim Jon Semmerling is an award-winning author, a respect
The Gaily Show: Thinking Clearly, Thinking Queerly about legal recognition for poly and non-nuclear families
A new episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops on August 26th! In our off weeks we play episodes of The Gaily Show which John hosts. The Gaily Show is the only daily LGBTQ progressive news and talk radio show in the country airing in Minneapolis (AM950-KTNF) and Chicago (WCPT 820). In this episode, Attorney Chris
How do we live radiantly when the world seems bent on our erasure? Today we meet Caro De Robertis and we’re talking about the queer book that saved their life: Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin, translated by Bonnie Huie. Caro’s books best-selling books have Stonewall Book Awards and the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butle
The Gaily Show: A new novel from Jonathan Parks-Ramage, plus Lance Garland’s debut memoir
A new episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops on August 12th! We"re going to be in Iceland for Pride the first week of August. So, for the next two weeks we"ll be playing episodes of The Gaily Show which John hosts. The Gaily Show is the only daily LGBTQ progressive news and talk radio show in the country airing
A new episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops on August 12th! We"re going to be in Iceland for Pride the first week of August. So, for the next two weeks we"ll be playing episodes of The Gaily Show which John hosts. The Gaily Show is the only daily LGBTQ progressive news and talk radio show in the country airing
Where are all the queer people in history? Today we meet Ilana Masad and we’re talking about the queer book that saved her life: Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg. And Jordy joins us! Ilana Masad is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and criticism. Their work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, LA Tim