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.
Podcasting since 2022 • 129 episodes
This Queer Book Saved My Life
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The Satyricon with Neil Laird
One of the world's oldest surviving novels was a queer book?!Today we meet Neil Laird and we’re talking about the queer book that saved his life: The Satyricon by Petronius.Neil is a multiple Emmy-nominated Executive Prod...
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The Gaily Show: Queer Slang with K Anderson
A new episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops on December 16th! 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 co...
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7 Minutes in Book Heaven with Anne Laughlin and Clean Kill
We have a new episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life on December 16th! Today, Once Upon a Crime Books presents 7 Minutes in Book Heaven, the podcast where we interview LGBTQ authors about the new books they have coming out for us to love and ...
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