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 • 132 episodes
This Queer Book Saved My Life
Latest Episodes
The Passion with Sarah Stone
This book has a very fabulous determined, genderfluid, and Bi character. Reading her released something in me.Today we meet Sarah Stone and we’re talking about the queer book that saved their life: The Passion by Jeanette Winter...
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson with Jake Stepansky and David Levithan
Will I as a queer person be able to live openly, boldly, and out of the shadows?Today we meet Jake Stepansky and we’re talking about the queer book that saved his life: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan and John Green...
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Reverie with William Ollayos and Ryan La Sala
What happens when the world tells you you're too much and you start shrinking yourself to survive?Today we meet William Ollayos and we’re talking about the queer book that saved his life: Reverie by Ryan La Sala. And Ryan joins ...
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The Prince of Los Cocuyos with Karsten Vagner and Richard Blanco
This question has followed me around my whole life: where do I come from?Today we meet Karsten Vagner and we’re talking about the queer book that saved his life: The Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco. And Richard joins us ...
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