This Queer Book Saved My Life
A 2024 GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Podcast, This Queer Book Saved My Life explores the transformative power of queer literature. Every episode brings a new guest sharing the LGBTQ book that saved their life – in conversation with author who wrote it.
The conversations touch on finding the language to come out, embarking on gender transitions, navigating familial homophobia, and, in some instances, how literature literally saved lives. The books’ authors join the conversation to share what it took to write and publish the book, along with their hopes for writing it in the first place and its impact since.
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.
In its review, Electric Lit wrote, “Honest and heartfelt, This Queer Book Saved My Life is a testament to the power of representation, the way seeing yourself on the page can help you feel a little less alone.”
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.
The Gaily Show
The Gaily Show premiered in December 2023 as a weekly LGBTQ culture and entertainment in Minnesota. It is co-produced with AM950-KTNF (Minneapolis/St. Paul).
In January 2025, AM950 promoted The Gaily Show to a daily one-hour program. It is currently the only daily LGBTQ radio news and talk show in the country. It was picked up by WCPT 820 in Chicago in April 2025. The Gaily Show airs 2pm – 3pm CST in Minneapolis and simulcasts on our YouTube channel. It airs from 5am – 6am on WCPT 820 in Chicago. In addition to broadcast radio and YouTube, you can listen through the TuneIn app. It’s available on am950radio.com and heartlandsignal.com.
After its radio broadcast, you can stream all episodes everywhere you get your podcasts.
Have a story idea or press release you want to share with us? Email johnparker@thegailyshow.org
7 Minutes in Book Heaven
We now only produce 7 Minutes in Book Heaven as a paid marketing service for book retailers and publishers. Recognizing the difficult marketing environment for LGBTQ books, we produce this high quality podcast content to assist book retailers and publishers who normally do not engage in this medium or who have not had the resources.
In the show, John Parker interviews queer authors about their exciting new releases for us to love and cuddle up with.
Clients receive the episode’s audio MP3 file, promotional graphic, and embed codes to place the episode on their websites and in their email newsletters. Please use the contact form to inquire about rates and timing. For all episodes visit here.
The Queer Armenian Library
The Queer Armenian Library is the world’s first digital library dedicated 
exclusively to literature by, about, and for Queer Armenians. The library showcases essays, memoirs, novels, short stories, poetry, television, music, comedy, art, and films.
The library features fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, poetry, film, art installations, and musical performers/composers.
A physical collection is available at Oxford University. We’re currently at work to establish a second physical location at the Fem Library in Yerevan, Armenia.
Please reach out to inquire about a digital sponsorship on the Queer Armenian Library. The website receives 6,800 annual views and 3,000 unique annual visitors.
