Episode 207: J.P. Der Boghossian

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

We've got J.P. Der Boghossian (he/they), creator of the Queer Armenian Library and host of the brand new podcast, This Queer Book Saved My Life! J.P. grew up with messaging from his religious Armenian community that AIDS and hate crimes were "divine punishment" for being gay; as a result, he believed well into his twenties that he was going to die young. J.P. walks us through his unexpected brush with mortality, what it means to be a queer Armenian-American, and how he went from never being in a relationship longer than six weeks to becoming part of a polyamorous throuple that's celebrating their eleventh anniversary this year!

(TW: discussion of suicide attempt/ideation)

Follow J.P. on Twitter and Instagram at @jpderboghossian, and make sure you check out the Queer Armenian Library at https://queerarmenianlibrary.com/ (@readtheQAL on Twitter and Insta)! Also, listen to This Queer Book Saved My Life! at https://thisqueerbook.com/ or wherever you get your pods, and follow them on everywhere at @thisqueerbook!

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.5	Hey, everybody.
0:03.1	Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole.
0:06.0	We are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks from all walks of life.
0:10.0	They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:15.1	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:17.5	We are sitting here today, all three of us in respective closets in different parts of America.
0:24.8	We're sitting with J.P. Derbogsion.
0:28.4	How did I do on that?
0:29.5	Okay, I got a thumbs up.
0:30.9	Perfect.
0:31.4	I wish everyone could see the background of Nicole and I asking guests how they pronounce their names and then saying it 15
0:38.9	times and then inevitably screwing it up when we actually do it.
0:42.1	But this time it went okay.
0:43.6	So moving on.
0:45.3	JP, okay, JP, a lot of things.
0:48.9	First of all, he created the queer Armenian library, which we will talk about at length, but it is a digital
0:56.0	library with a gorgeous website. Somebody knows what they're doing in that area. And then also
1:01.7	just this past month, JP launched a podcast called This Queer Book Saved My Life, where folks
1:09.5	come on and literally talk about queer books that in some way,
1:13.3	shape, or form saved their life. And so JPE is learning firsthand the difficulties of starting
1:18.8	a brand new podcast. I think you have, when you have like three episodes out or something like
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