The Queer Advantage

Name: The Queer Advantage
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780306874635
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Conversations with LGBTQ+ Leaders on the Power of Identity

By Andrew Gelwicks

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The Queer Advantage by Andrew Gelwicks explores how successful LGBTQ+ individuals harness their identities as sources of strength and inspiration in their professional and personal lives. The book features insights from a diverse array of figures, including artists, activists, and business leaders, demonstrating how embracing one's uniqueness can lead to resilience and thriving success. It's an empowering guide for leveraging the power of individuality and authenticity.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book may appeal to you if you’re interested in exploring how LGBTQ+ individuals have harnessed their identity to thrive professionally and personally. Through insightful interviews, it highlights how embracing one's uniqueness can be a powerful tool for success and authenticity. If you're seeking inspiration from diverse voices and looking to leverage your own personal strengths, this book offers valuable perspectives.

The Queer Advantage

Collecting incisive, deeply personal interviews with 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 in one beautifully illustrated, collectible edition.

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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, internalised 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.

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Andrew Gelwicks' The Queer Advantage is widely celebrated as an inspirational and insightful collection of interviews featuring influential figures from the queer community. Reviewers highlight the book's ability to candidly explore how queerness impacts personal and professional lives while serving as a powerful testament to turning perceived weaknesses into strengths. It is praised for bringing diverse voices to light and offering a blend of personal anecdotes and life lessons, making it a valuable read for anyone seeking empowerment and understanding within the LGBTQ+ community.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780306874635

Publisher: Hachette Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Da Capo Press Inc

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 480g

Pages: 368

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Andrew Gelwicks Career Development Education & Reference LGBTQ+ Mindset & Self Help Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

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.