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From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman Today's gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes, both fictional and real, but Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead, she had to search for queerness in the teen cultural phenomena that the early aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan's fall from grace, Gossip Girl, Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl," country-era Taylor Swift, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And, for better or worse, these touch points shaped her identity, and she came out on the other side, as she puts it, gay as hell. Join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the early 2000's, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance―a time not so long ago, that people seem to forget.
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"The author also turns her critical eye toward the ways in which queer viewers were drawn to queer-coded characters because of what they saw in themselves but also modeled themselves after those characters, in a long game of chicken or the egg ..."
"While a few essays feel a bit rushed, the collection as a whole is greater than its parts ..."
"Perry's book of personal essays is both an overview of her experience as a gay woman and an examination of the pop culture that shaped her ..."
"Yes, the collection sometimes takes itself a wee bit too seriously but is more often lively and thought provoking ..."
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