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’
” 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?
” 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.