“By God, what a blockbuster!!!”
- Tracy Susman

“I’m so grateful that you saw something in the image of me that made you choose it for the cover. Thank you. It’s a bit unsettling—I’m also flattered. I’m very real as far as drag queens go. I’m not so into perfection. My illusion is created when my audience is laughing so hard that the hair melts from my arms and they realize that we aren’t so different.”
- Pearlene, aka Michael Duplessis, Inside Out’s cover subject

“I am very proud of the way your book has turned out, more than any other book I have been involved with.”
- book designer Charley Allen


“The photographs are fabulous but even more, I found the interviews to be particularly insightful and moving. I had no idea of the depth of feelings and the sense of abandonment that drove many of these men to their career choice—all of this is beautifully expressed in their life stories.”
- James A. Jaffe

“Daring and powerful…The individuals in this book have allowed Barbara Marcus into their lives, surrendering to her camera, to create provocative and beautiful images...Marcus has uncovered a world that is little known to most of us.”
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author and photojournalist Sharon J. Wohlmuth

“What a gorgeous book!...the photos of the subjects as normal guys are eye-opening.”
- Steve Gross

“It is absolutely gorgeous. The size, the photos, the text, everything is beautifully done.”
- Ellin Jaffe

“All I can say is WOW!”
- Vivian Cahn