The Queer Bible: A beautiful essay collection on queer trailblazers through history, including words from Elton John, Munroe Bergdorf, Graham Norton, Paris Lees, and more

Great collection of stories and events.

This is a wonderfully eclectic collection of writing on contemporary queer people's inspirations and muses. Some of the essays will inevitably speak to the individual reader more than others, but I often found it was the subject matter I knew least about, being espoused by writers I'd never heard of, which proved the most rewarding.

Great idea for a book and great fun to read.

I didn’t really relate to “The Queer Bible“, but this could perhaps be due to the fact that I don’t correspond to the target demographic which feels very mid-30s, fashiony, London-based - i.e. like editor Jack Guinness - and TBH a bit too sure of itself. I left the UK in 1997 to live in Italy, when Jack was only 9, and so I don’t share a lot of the cultural references. But it’s not just me and my lack of time in the UK: How can Freddy McDonnell not use the word “bisexual” when writing about David Bowie?! Hasn’t he seen the iconic 1979 Mavis Nicholson interview (featured in 2022 film Moonage Daydream)? Bisexual erasure clearly made it through editing … not a good look 😬.I did like the essay on Pasolini (obviously massive cultural icon in Italy) and a couple of the others.

I would have to think the packer of this book thought, nah the person getting this book won't mind a few deep, but small (though the black outer was gouged deep enough to show the white inner), gouges in the spine of the book! Come on, quality control folks. It was the last one so have to suck it up. I put it with the rest of the less than perfect condition books I received (a growing collection). I was at a bookstore the other day, I know.....gasp, and the there was thrill picking the perfect condition book! Book condition aside, content was fine if not a bit pompous in parts