The 2000S Made me gay : : Essays on pop Culture

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Call Number: 306.766 Pe, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Humor / Perry, Grace
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Real-world gays and Real World gays -- Harry Potter and the half-assed gay character -- The gospel according to Mean Girls -- Cherry chapstick -- Be the PR team you wish to see in the world -- Blair Waldorf has notes on my sex life -- Banter boys: Christian, Seth, Jim, and me -- Disney Channel presents: sapphic overtones -- American bitch / American butch -- Talking / laughing / loving / breathing -- Taylor Swift made me a U-Haul dyke -- The Glee bubble.
"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 "If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book." -Sarah Pappalardo, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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