Leslie Jordan is one of the most consistently recognizable faces in popular entertainment. His journey towards stardom has provided one of the quirkier, impressive, and varied career trajectories of the past few decades. Through it all, Leslie Jordan has remained constant, relevant and-above all-funny! His ability to take it all in stride has kept him moving onward, upward but never straight. Leslie Jordan won an Emmy Award in 2006 for his role on Will & Grace, he has appeared on television, conquered the international stage, and remains an in-demand mainstay as a performer, voice-over artist, fundraiser, spokesperson, out artist, and equal rights activist.
In this collection of sharp recollections, Jordan details his life growing up as a church-going boy outside of Chattanooga to misadventures in drag to moving to Los Angeles in the midst of the AIDS crisis. He is, in every sense, fierce, a hilarious storyteller who makes the mundane seem magical and a staunch advocate for the LGBTQ community... This breezy collection will appeal to readers of pop culture, celebrity memoirs, and Southern storytelling. - Booklist Hilarious . . . highly entertaining . . . With a whole lot of heart and even more laughs, Jordan captures his personality perfectly on the page. - The Nerd Daily