Contents:
- HANNAH GADSBY TRICKED A CHRISTIAN BAKER TO MAKG A GAY WEDDG KE
- HANNAH GADSBY MEETS ROXANE GAY: ‘TROLLS GET CENSED BY A WOMAN DARG TO THK SHE'S FUNNY. I'M VERY FUNNY’
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”.
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HANNAH GADSBY MEETS ROXANE GAY: ‘TROLLS GET CENSED BY A WOMAN DARG TO THK SHE'S FUNNY. I'M VERY FUNNY’
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” It’s clear Gadsby is not a quiet gay. By the end of her rog hour-long soliloquy, she’s ranged om the sign flaws of the gay flag to Pablo Pisso’s misogyny, and ntends that her favore sound the world is that of “a teacup fdg s place on a scer. Nate went up on Netflix a month ago, and has sce eliced thorough analysis the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Washgton Post and Vany Fair, while Lily Allen, Thandie Newton, Moni Lewsky, Ellen Page and Roxane Gay have raved and/or wept about on Twter ( a tweet to Gadsby, Gay wrote: “You moved me and have really ma me thk about humour, the self, self-pretn and the of anger”).
She reveals experienc of homophobic and sexual vlence, which late throughout the set, until fally she is liverg them om a precipice of rage. Homophobia was makg s way back to the public sphere; a clear, disturbg the first third of Nate, Gadsby nstcts the tobgraphil material she has aired over the years, cludg a tale about nearly gettg beaten up at a b stop, which gets the dience lghg gamely.