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The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay: Essays
Author(s): Eliot Glazer (Author)
- Publisher: Gallery Books
- Publication Date: August 11, 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 1668085429
- ISBN-13: 9781668085424
Book Description
“In a world of A+ gays, take some tips from the opposite of that. Eliot’s voice must be heard.” —Jinkx Monsoon, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race and star of Oh, Mary!
From comedian Eliot Glazer comes a hilarious and heartfelt essay collection for Las Culturistas listeners, 30 Rock fanatics, and anyone who wishes David Sedaris were just a tad filthier.
Comedian and writer Eliot Glazer may occasionally get
some stuff right, but being gay is not one of them.Poppers make him dizzy. Parties make him panicked. And the term “guncle” makes him queasy. When it comes to being part of the LGBTQ+ community, Eliot just can’t seem to find his shade of the rainbow, which is precisely why he repeatedly suggests a grayscale one instead (although no one seems to listen).
In a community built around the “chosen family,” Eliot can’t even get
adopted.The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay is for anyone who fully spirals while shopping for a throw pillow, does breathing exercises before entering a pool party, or has a full-fledged breakdown after accidentally dyeing their fake front tooth bubblegum blue amid a torrid affair with a guy under house arrest. (Okay, that might just be Eliot, but it’s one hell of a story.)
Eliot’s laugh-out-loud yet quietly heartbreaking stories capture the glory, chaos, and contradictions of queer modern life—a rallying cry for anyone who’s ever felt like the odd one out, the minority within the minority, and the one who always seems to “do it wrong.”
Editorial Reviews
Review
— Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author
“In a world of A+ gays, take some tips from the opposite of that. Eliot’s voice must be heard.”
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“Eliot is so bad at being gay, but he’s so funny that you don’t care.”
“I rarely read books that make me jealous I didn’t write them. Eliot’s is one of them. A terrific, precise collection of essays that show the epicenter of his great (no good, very bad gay) mind.”
“I have never felt so seen by a book than I have by Eliot’s The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay. Reading his writing is like hearing your own private thoughts read back to you, if only your thoughts were a thousand times funnier. From anxiety-inducing pool parties to the circus of gay dating, Eliot’s essays perfectly capture the hilarity, heartbreak, and wonderful absurdity of modern queer life.”
— Grant Ginder, nationally bestselling author of So Old, So Young
“The lessons through laughter, sincerity and wit feels like the boozy, braless drag brunch I want never want to leave.”
“No one gets beneath stereotypes better or more hilariously than Eliot.”
“Eliot may be a bad gay, but he’s also a terrific, hilarious, all good, not-all-bad writer.”
“Eliot is a terrible gay but, luckily, he’s a terrifically good writer. His searingly honest, wickedly funny essays tear apart pop culture and queer romance with insight and heart. Do your future self lying on a beach a favor and buy this book.”
“A gay book that is hilarious, heartfelt and actually not cringe?!? I didn’t think it was scientifically possible but Eliot Glazer has done it and it’s so, so funny!”
“Eliot’s perspective on being a gay millennial man is so real and so specific that it’s universally human. Bursting with jokes, his comedy on stage and screen translates onto the page seamlessly. This book arrives at that moment in life when we finally accept not fitting in. But maybe I’m biased.”
“Blunt truth-telling and soul-baring confessions challenge both the queer and homonormative mainstays of modern gay culture. All of this nonconformity is delivered with personality and charm, amid an earnest search for community, making it easy to chuckle right along with this witty, culturally rebellious ‘anthropologist of nonsense.’ Hilarious, playful assessments from an antihero living on the fringes of the gay community.”
About the Author
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