Bonus Episode: Queer Bible with Jack Guinness
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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A big old Culture Club treat for you all, Jack Guinness, is the man behind the book everyone should be giving this Christmas - The Queer Bible. Featuring Elton John, Munroe Bergdorf, Tan France and many more talking about their own Queer Heroes, Jack swings by to tell us all about it.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a culture club special. |
| 0:07.2 | We've been doing these now and again when I was thinking, well, what does a good queer person put in |
| 0:11.8 | people's talking to Christmas? How do we educate Auntie Watson? How do we educate our |
| 0:16.2 | less advanced members of the family? I can tell you how. You get them the queer bible. I think it's |
| 0:22.2 | a great idea. Anyway, it's a fan book and it's been put together by someone called Jack Guinness |
| 0:27.1 | and he took it upon himself to collate a series of essays by queer heroes talking about their |
| 0:35.8 | own queer heroes. Queue Bible is a brilliant kind of Instagram account. It started as an Instagram |
| 0:40.0 | account. Basically born out of the idea that we don't know our queer history nor are we taught it. |
| 0:45.2 | So highlighting incredible people from our past, the shoulders on whose, no, the shoulders, |
| 0:51.5 | the giants on whose shoulders we stand. So there's an essay by Elton John in there on divine, |
| 0:58.6 | Gus Kenworthy talking about Adam Rippon, there's Paris Lee's talking about Edward Enneful, |
| 1:04.0 | there's Monroe Berkdorf talking about the film Paris's burning, the amazing Tam France talking |
| 1:09.3 | about Queer Eye and May Martin on Tim Curry. Brilliant brilliant stories. People talking about their |
| 1:15.0 | own personal history of queerness, I suppose. And those guiding lights I couldn't recommend it enough. |
| 1:20.1 | I read it covered to cover, I think it's fab. And you don't have to listen to me as well. |
| 1:24.3 | The Oprah Magazine said it was an LGBTQ book changing the literary landscape, it says here. |
| 1:30.1 | It's a bit too messy. Jack who put it together is a very funny, wonderful man. He came to chat to me |
| 1:38.4 | all about, you know, where it came from and all of that. So that's today's little culture club |
| 1:43.3 | booster jab for you. Have a listen. You're going to love Jack. You're going to love the book. |
| 1:48.0 | Let me introduce you. Here's my chat with Jack Guinness. |
| 1:52.7 | I've had a whirlwind kind of book tour, but from my sofa. So, you know, you dream of the glamour |
| 1:59.0 | of releasing a book and then you do it on the couch. And so at one point I went on the today show, |
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