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The Queer Advantage: Conversations with LGBTQ+ Leaders on the Power of Identity by Andrew Gelwicks
4.0
I was gifted THE QUEER ADVANTAGE by Hachette Books as part of their #HBSocialClub - thank you so much for this beautiful book!
The Queer Advantage is a collection of 51 interviews with influential LGBTQ+ individuals. Instead of a common refrain of hardships and indignities, interviewer and author Andrew Gelwicks instead steers all the conversations to how being queer has advantaged these high power individuals in their lives and led them to their influential platforms in which they reign today.
You’ll find interviews from actors, politicians, CEOs, writers, producers, athletes and more. These people also identify across the spectrum as gay, lesbian, bi, queer, and trans - giving a beautiful range of powerful voices.
This collection is really physically beautiful as well as subjectively important. It’s important to change the narrative of a marginalized group of individuals if you have the power to do so. I found myself, as a queer identifying person, feeling more energized to get to work after reading a few interviews with my breakfast each morning. It helped hush the imposter syndrome for a bit and instead gave me an opportunity to celebrate who I am and the power it gives me every day.
I’d recommend any queer identifying person OR ally to pick up Gelwick’s collection. It’s so beautiful in publication you should think of it as the modern coffee table book. I found I lost speed and started to tune out if I read many interviews in a row (like one would a novel) and instead felt way more impact picking it up to read a couple here and there (especially in the morning).
This would make a great gift for your favorite queer person this holiday season- or for someone who could use a little insight to the joy and power that can come of being othered. ✨
The Queer Advantage is a collection of 51 interviews with influential LGBTQ+ individuals. Instead of a common refrain of hardships and indignities, interviewer and author Andrew Gelwicks instead steers all the conversations to how being queer has advantaged these high power individuals in their lives and led them to their influential platforms in which they reign today.
You’ll find interviews from actors, politicians, CEOs, writers, producers, athletes and more. These people also identify across the spectrum as gay, lesbian, bi, queer, and trans - giving a beautiful range of powerful voices.
This collection is really physically beautiful as well as subjectively important. It’s important to change the narrative of a marginalized group of individuals if you have the power to do so. I found myself, as a queer identifying person, feeling more energized to get to work after reading a few interviews with my breakfast each morning. It helped hush the imposter syndrome for a bit and instead gave me an opportunity to celebrate who I am and the power it gives me every day.
I’d recommend any queer identifying person OR ally to pick up Gelwick’s collection. It’s so beautiful in publication you should think of it as the modern coffee table book. I found I lost speed and started to tune out if I read many interviews in a row (like one would a novel) and instead felt way more impact picking it up to read a couple here and there (especially in the morning).
This would make a great gift for your favorite queer person this holiday season- or for someone who could use a little insight to the joy and power that can come of being othered. ✨