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.
John is an essayist, educator, and Lambda Literary Fellow. His essays have been featured in the collections The Sun Isn't Out Long Enough, Emerge, and We Are All Armenian: Voices From The Diaspora.
His is an eclectic career path through broadcast journalism, higher education, LGBTQ health equity, and now...podcasting.
He lives, writes, and bakes in Minneapolis.