John Parker is the founder of the Queer Armenian Library, the world’s first library devoted to works by, about, and for Queer Armenians. Since 2014, Oxford University has included a copy of the collection in its Bodleian Library. His writing has appeared in the anthologies We Are All Armenian, The Sun Isn’t Out Long Enough, and Emerge. John founded and hosts the podcast This Queer Book Saved My Life, a 2024 GLAAD Media Award Nominee for Outstanding Podcast. He also hosts The Gaily Show which is the only daily LGBTQ progressive radio news and talk show in the United States. It airs on AM950-KTNF (Minneapolis) and WCPT 820 (Chicago). Follow the show on Bluesky for listings in new cities as they become available. As a queer Armenian-American who is a dual citizen of France and the United States, he is currently at work on an essay collection titled A Home at the Beginning of the World which explores how home is more than place, but rather it is in our names, and the languages we speak, in our migrations, and the histories we do and don’t carry. Stay tuned to the Queer Armenian Library and The Gaily Show for any updates on its publication.
John Parker
