The Queer Advantage

Conversations with LGBTQ+ Leaders on the Power of Identity

De: Andrew Gelwicks

Narrado por: Andrew Gelwicks, Jared Raman, Reny Amoros, LaMont Ridgell

Duración: 9 h y 57 m

Resumen del Editor

Meet the LGBTQ+ dealmakers, trailblazers, and glass-ceiling breakers in business, politics, and beyond.

The people who are creating national public policy, running billion-dollar tech enterprises, and winning Olympic medals. Andrew Gelwicks interviews the leaders who have forged their own paths and changed the world.

From Troye Sivan to Margaret Cho, George Takei to Billie Jean King, Shangela to Adam Rippon, each person credits their queer identity with giving them an edge in their paths to success. Their stories brim with the hard-won lessons gained over their careers. With variances in age, background, careers, and races, key themes shine through:

• Channeling anger in a positive way - using it as rocket fuel to succeed
• Leveraging your difference to beget new ideas and strategies
• Bridging generational gaps
• Accessing resources to conquer crippling denial, internalized homophobia, and doubt
• The power of the Internet as a tool of self-discovery
• Using your sensitivity and attunement to read the room, deciding when to fit in and when to stand out
• Finding a queer tribe and learning to help and lean on one another

Collecting incisive, deeply personal conversations with LGBTQ+ trailblazers about how they leveraged the challenges and insights they had as relative outsiders to succeed in the worlds of business, tech, politics, Hollywood, sports and beyond, The Queer Advantage celebrates the unique, supercharged power of queerness.

©2021 Andrew Gelwicks (P)2021 Hachette Go

Reseñas de la Crítica

"This book is for the birds - and I mean it in the nicest way. Just like the nightingale bird, the more people that tried to drown out their voices, the louder they sang. And now, they sing the most beautiful songs of all. Read this book! Hear the nightingales." (Leslie Jordan)

"This collection...feels less like a book of tips from queer power players and more like a series of intimate chats between good friends-that is, if your good friends were LGBTQ+ icons like George Takei, Adam Rippon and Margaret Cho. Offering deeply affecting anecdotes from queer leaders and the life lessons they learned in real time in the worlds of business, tech, sports, entertainment and more, The Queer Advantage encourages readers to find power in their identities." (Time)

"Throughout The Queer Advantage, Andrew Gelwicks and the people he is interviewing make clear that being fully oneself is an advantage, an edge, a benefit to one's individual life and our shared humanity. To be anything but one's full, glorious, gorgeous self would be less than whole and cheapen all of us. This is a book for anyone and everyone, bursting with dynamic conversations and revelations, and challenging all of us to own who we are, love those we love, and expect the best and most out of ourselves, our families, our friends and our society. It is well worth your time. Prepare for laughter, tears, reflection, and hope." (Chelsea Clinton, author, advocate, and vice chair of the Clinton Foundation)