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This Queer Book Saved My Life

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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... more

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Our next episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops June 30th! In our off weeks we air episodes from The Gaily Show. It's the only daily LGBTQ news and talk show in the US! John hosts it and it airs on AM950-KTNF (Minneapolis), WCPT 820 AM (Chica... more

This book raised something that was running subterranean in my system back up to the surface again.

Today we meet J. Brooke and we’re talking about the queer book that saved their life: Transition: Becoming Who I Was Always Meant to Be by Chaz Bono.... more

Our next episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops June 16th! In our off weeks we air episodes from The Gaily Show. It's the only daily LGBTQ news and talk show in the US! John hosts it and it airs on AM950-KTNF, WCPT 820 AM, plus weekly on News... more

Why would I ever want to have a body and why should I allow it to want what it wants?

Today we meet Jill Rosenberg and we’re talking about the queer book that saved her life: Sea of Tranquility by Paul Elliott Russell. And Paul joins us for the conv... more

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Recent Guests

Hugh Ryan
Author of My Bad, A Personal History of the Queer 90s and Beyond
American LGBTQ Plus Museum; author
Episode: The Gaily Show: The Queer 90s
Jill Rosenberg
Author, Now I'm Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself
Author
Episode: Sea of Tranquility with Jill Rosenberg and Paul Russell
Paul Elliott Russell
Author of Sea of Tranquility, The Angels Came to Sodom in the Evening
Author
Episode: Sea of Tranquility with Jill Rosenberg and Paul Russell
Perry Zurn
Dr. Perry Zurn, Provost and Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University
American University
Episode: Stone Butch Blues with Perry Zurn
Christopher Armitage
Author of Conservatism, America's Personality Disorder; The Existentialist Republic
Author, journalist, Air Force veteran
Episode: The Gaily Show: States’ Power to Fight the Trump Admin
Lynette D'Amico
Essayist and fiction writer; author of Men I Hate
Author, Men I Hate; MFA from Warren Wilson College
Episode: Carol with Lynette D'Amico
Joseph Darius Jaafari
Editor-in-Chief and Founder of LookOUT, Arizona's LGBTQ Newsroom
LookOUT
Episode: The Gaily Show: Arizona’s LGBTQ Newsroom - The LOOKOUT
Gabriel Rotello
Author and journalist known for Sexual Ecology and OutWeek Magazine
Author, Journalist
Episode: Gay New York with Gabriel Rotello
Max Hovey
London-based writer, creator, and queer advocate
Author of No Fats, No Fems, A Guide to Queer Empathy and Unpacking Prejudice
Episode: The Velvet Rage with Max Hovey

Host

John Parker
Host and interviewer guiding conversations with LGBTQ+ authors, scholars, and activists across multiple programs.

Reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars from 88 ratings
  • Exceptional Guests and Compelling interviews

    Insightful and timely this podcast explores the incredible power of art and books for ALL PEOPLE and how they can be especially transforming and healing for LGBTQ people. Excellent interviews and guests. Addictive in its power and remarkably entertaining. Recall the quote of Ray Bradbury from the 1950s “you don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get people to stop reading them”

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    BillyS44
    United Statesa year ago
  • Great show

    Love this show! Patiently waiting for Dancer from the Dance!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    g_roth
    United Statesa year ago
  • Healing my Queer Heart

    I just came across this podcast yesterday and I can already feel the love pouring out from the creators and guests. There’s nothing quite like queer people talking about queer things together. Thank you for this!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Natmosphere
    Canada2 years ago
  • Disgusting

    Homos deserve hellfire

    Apple Podcasts
    1
    gotohellApplecompany
    Canada3 years ago
  • My new favorite podcast

    Such an interesting concept-a great listen for queer conversation but also for book discovery. I’m a bit picky about audio quality in my podcasts (I hate when one voice is louder or softer and I have to keep adjusting the volume) but this is smooth and easy on the ears as well as having excellent content.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    LaraLillibridge
    United States4 years ago

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Thoughtfully hosted conversations with compassionate curiosity that highlight LGBTQ+ literature and history.
High-quality conversations that blend memoir and scholarship.
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Sea of Tranquility with Jill Rosenberg and Paul Russell
Q: How did you approach writing four different points of view in Sea of Tranquility?
Paul describes the process as exploratory and not strictly based on real people, drawing from personal experiences and the dynamics of imagination, which helped shape the quartet structure and the balance between the four voices.
The Gaily Show: The Queer 90s
Q: Talk to us about the 90s as an opportunity for America to understand or not bisexuality.
Ryan discusses how bisexuality was often misunderstood or portrayed as a transitionary phase in 90s media, with limited space for authentic bisexual identities, contrasting later years where more nuanced conversations about attraction and identity emerged.
The Gaily Show: The Queer 90s
Q: So set the stage for us. The 1990s, what is the Queer 90s?
The Queer 90s are described as the last analog moment for queer life, a hinge decade where communities thrived with physical spaces like clubs and libraries, before digital technology and the internet transformed access and visibility.
The Gaily Show: Skylar Lyralen Kaye’s Bachelorx. Bobuq Sayed’s No God But Us
Q: Why did you choose Orpheus as the narrator and muse for your memoir?
Skylar explains using Orpheus to connect the divine with personal growth and to frame the dating journey as a mythic, multi-voiced search.
The Gaily Show: Skylar Lyralen Kaye’s Bachelorx. Bobuq Sayed’s No God But Us
Q: Can you talk to us about leaving a marriage and pursuing dating again after many years?
Skylar discusses the learning curve after long-term partnership, the shift from a marriage mindset to dating in adulthood, and embracing authenticity and risk in relationships.

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This show centers queer literature's impact on personal and political life, hosting authors, historians, and LGBTQ+ advocates who discuss how books shaped identity, resilience, and community. Interviews blend memoir, cultural history, and critical insight, with conversations often weaving in coming-out stories, archival moments, and contemporary rights issues. Noteworthy is the commitment to diverse voices across genres, from poetry and fiction to scholarship and journalism, and to making difficult conversations accessible through warm, curiosity-driven dialogue.

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2. Jill Rosenberg
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6. Lynette D'Amico
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