"The best book I ever received as a gift? Easy. QUEER PEOPLE...as funny as anything I've ever read."

— Graydon Carter, Former Editor of Vanity Fair,

in The New York Times (2025)

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"Queer" is used in its 1913 Webster's Dictionary sense — strange, eccentric, unconventional — a celebration of the gloriously oddball characters of 1920s Hollywood.

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Published in 1930 by two brothers who lived it, QUEER PEOPLE hit pre-Code Hollywood like a brick through a studio window, exposing 1920s Tinseltown at its most scandalous. Wickedly funny, spectacularly indecent, nine printings in one summer. Then buried for over 50 years.

Follow Whitey, a broke, gin-soaked newspaperman who blows into Prohibition-era Hollywood. Blackmail, backstabbing, casting couches, murder — all washed down at wild bootleg-and-jazz parties where nobody means a word they say. Real moguls, real stars, real dirt — Irving Thalberg, John Gilbert, Louella Parsons, and many more — barely disguised.

Howard Hughes bought the film rights. Even he couldn’t get it made.

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