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.
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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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“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?