This Queer Book Saved My Life!
Fans of On Being and Los Culturistas love this indie where LGBTQ guests share the queer books that saved their lives with the authors who wrote them. 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, educator, and Lambda Literary Fellow J.P. Der Boghossian hosts the conversations with a gentle and energetic style, standing in as conversational partner for posthumous authors. A bonus feature is 7 Minutes in Book Heaven, where J.P. interviews queer authors about their exciting new releases for us to love and cuddle up with. thisqueerbook.com @thisqueerbook
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The Gaily Show: One Voice Mixed Chorus, Theater Latté Da, and HBO Max's True Detective
A new episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops next Tuesday (Jan 23). In our off weeks, we air the most recent episode of The Gaily Show which J.P. hosts for AM950 Radio. On today’s episode, we meet the new Artistic Director of One Voice, Minnesota’s LGBTA mixed chorus and the new Artistic Director of Theater La
Today we meet Philip Anthony and we’re talking about the book that saved his life: The Homosexualization of America by Dennis Altman. And Dennis joins us for the conversation! Philip is based in Minneapolis and is host of the podcast The Downright Upright Show. Dennis is the son of Jewish refugees, and a writer and ac
New episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops next week on January 9th! On today’s episode of The Gaily Show, we take a deeper dive into the year that was for 2023, including big numbers in LGBTQ fiction sales and a look at this year’s Minnesota LAMMYS nominees and winners, plus we take a look ahead to the LGBTQ c
Today, we meet Jeff Billington and his new novel: Summer"s Second. In this novel, Asher Brock’s last summer of youth is far from ideal. His hopes for the future, including an escape from his constricting Ozark Mountains hometown, seem increasingly fragile as he faces hurdles of poverty and abuse, all while coming to te
On today’s episode, host J.P. Der Boghossian talks with New York Times Modern Love contributor Suzette Mullen about her upcoming book The Only Way Through Is Out. Then, a conversation with Minnesota author Gary Eldon Peter about his novel The Complicated Calculus and Cows of Carl Paulsen. After which, J.P. speaks with
Today we meet Maya Williams and we’re talking about the book that saved their life: The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Maya Williams (ey/em, they/them, and she/her) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently an Ashley Bryan Fellow and the seventh Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine . May