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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, showing how you can too.

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. You’ll learn how to:
  • Channel anger in a positive way — using it as rocket fuel to succeed
  • Leverage your difference to beget new ideas and strategies
  • Bridge generational gaps
  • Access resources to conquer denial, internalized homophobia, and doubt
  • Use your sensitivity and attunement to read the room, deciding when to fit in and when to stand out
  • Find a queer tribe and learn to help and lean on one another
Collecting incisive, deeply personal conversations with inspirational 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.

ISBN-13: 9780306874635

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Hachette Books

Publication Date: 10-04-2022

Pages: 368

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

Andrew Gelwicks is a celebrity fashion stylist, writer, and speaker. He started in the fashion department at GQ, and later worked in celebrity booking for Teen VOGUE. His extensive portfolio includes working with Catherine O’Hara, Susan Sarandon, Uzo Aduba, Dixie D’Amelio, Michael Douglas, Delilah Belle, and Amelia Gray Hamlin, Lisa Rinna, Hilarie Burton Morgan, and Luna Blaise, among others. Andrew proves it's possible to conquer multiple business verticals, landing on power lists including OUT100 and Variety's Power of Pride. He has also been featured in Forbes, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, People, Harper's Bazaar, and WWD. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

George Takei 1

Jordan Roth & Richie Jackson 10

Troye Sivan 20

Cliff Hopkins 27

Alana Mayo 34

Chris Mosier 40

Jonathan Mildenhall 49

Billie Jean King 56

Howard Rosenman 60

Jennifer Finney Boylan 69

Jim Obergefell 76

Sally Susman 85

D.J. "Shangela" Pierce 91

Sam Lansky 98

Jeremy Bernard 109

Adam Rippon 115

Lee Daniels 126

Moj Mahdara 129

Dustin Lance Black 136

Lord John Browne 145

Ali Krieger 148

Drew Elliott 153

Barney Frank 161

Ryan O'Connell 168

Michael Kors 174

Arlan Hamilton 180

Derek Blasberg 186

Chuck James 191

Aaron Philip 198

Beth Ford 208

Teddy Goff 211

Dan Levy 218

Kim Culmone 223

Adam Eli 231

Margaret Cho 242

Billy Bean 246

Jonathan Murray 252

James Longman 257

Beth Brooke-Marciniak 262

Boy George 268

Dominique Jackson 273

Tom Daley 279

Paris Barclay 282

Sue Youcef Nabi 287

Mark Takano 296

Megan Smith 301

Blair Imani 305

Annise Parker 311

David Furnish 316

Our Lady J 328

Afterword 337

Resources 339

Selected Reading 343

Acknowledgments 345