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HANNAH GADSBY TRICKED A CHRISTIAN BAKER TO MAKG A GAY WEDDG KE

Siarly, Gadsby offers a plex and nuanced acunt of life small-town Tasmania the 1980s and 90s, wh heartfelt portras of people who mattered to her (and even some who didn’t) alongsi the simple fact of beg an environment where class divis were ep and racism and homophobia were rampant. Throughout the chapter, Gadsby ntu to riff on the song’s rea as she braids a clear-eyed acunt of the movement towards the crimalisatn of homosexualy the state, and s attendant public exprsns of both urageo queer rights activism and vilent homophobia, wh her own experience as a then-closeted adolcent.

Step 3 is the book’s vastatg tour force, s events ncludg one year after the crimalisatn of homosexualy Tasmania wh the experience Gadsby also scribed Nante: when a lol young man bash her for beg “a lady faggot”. ” is ployed, the rear may be surprised to disver that the crimalisatn of homosexualy Tasmania did not magilly expunge the Apple Isle of the vlence of homophobia.

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” In , Gadsby jok about their upbrgg, g to terms wh their sexualy and even Pablo Pisso (they were an art history major llege), but then they liver an emotnal dictment of homophobia, genred vlence and tradnal 's sophomore special, “Douglas, ” was notably ls foced on trma, but the edian ntued their cricisms of sexism while also talkg about their tism diagnosis. “We wanted to trick a Christian baker to makg a gay weddg ke, and worked. In “Nate, ” Hannah Gadsby asks, “Where are the quiet gays supposed to go?

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