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- BOOK REVIEW: “THE 2000S MA ME GAY” BY GRACE PERRY
THE 2000S MA ME GAY
Today’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer hero, both fictnal and real, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury.
She me out on the other si like many lennials did: her words, gay as on your Von Dutch hats and jo Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the ghts, before the taclysmic shift LGBTQ reprentatn and acceptance—a time not so long ago, which many seem to fet. You n buy a py of The 2000s Ma Me Gay here. ” —Sarah Pappalardo, edor chief and -founr of RctrsToday’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer hero, both fictnal and real, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury.
THE 2000S MADE ME GAY
“It’s easy now, hdsight, to nceive of early-ghts Amerin pop culture as trashy, and unenlightened, and fely sometim was, but wh The 2000s Ma Me Gay, Grace Perry reexam the ’s offergs and intifi what ma them so pellg and so fun—and y, so gay. ” —Katie Heaney, wrer for The Cut, and thor of Girl Cshed“In The 2000s Ma Me Gay, Grace Perry explor how the pop culture she loved growg up helped shape her sense of inty. ” —Kate Knibbs, Wired“Grace draws hilar parisons between the barely ncealed gayns of 2000s culture and her own journey of self-disvery.
From Grey's to Gossip Girl, this is the gay historil rerd that lennials need. ” —Beth Newell, creator of Rctrs“The 2000s Ma Me Gay is a gay hike through the media that shaped my ltle gay life, revisg all of the big qutns of my adolcence (Do I want to f*ck her, or be her?
Hilar and sneakily thought-provokg, The 2000s Ma Me Gay is a pellg llectn of says that seamlsly weav together pop culture referenc and tal om Perry’s sexual own awakeng. Mart's Griff, 2021)ShareShare Small screen, big iasThis week, I had the pleasure of halg the book The 2000s Ma me Gay, as well as terviewg s thor, the sayist and humor wrer Grace Perry.
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” That’s how I felt throughout much of The 2000s Ma Me Gay. The book is also, te to s tle, about Perry’s own experience wh g out and owng her queer inty, spe the often homophobic nature of such media, as well as her Catholic school upbrgg that had tsted teachers tellg her “homosexualy is like alholism.
When we were tweens, there were basilly no gay characters on TV, pecially TV targeted to kids and teens. Now, wh seri like Sex Edutn, Euphoria, and untls more, we’ve seen gayns more normalized and celebrated on TV than ever, though there are still shortgs. A lot of the progrs that has been ma the 2000s, pecially terms of gay teens on TV, and really to most of the 2010s, was talkg about cisgenr, attractive, mostly whe, ually gay men, not a lot of bisexual men, and lbians and bisexual women, girls, and boys.
BOOK REVIEW: “THE 2000S MA ME GAY” BY GRACE PERRY
To me is so obv when a gay character was wrten by straight people. There's a scene The Wire where Kima, who is one of the ps, and she's gay. But there's this one scene where Kima is out at a gay bar wh her girliend and a uple of their iends, and one of them asks her why she cid to bee a p, and Kima gets this whole monologue about helpg people, and meanwhile they're dog dg raids and beatg the sh out of people.
But this whole scene at the gay bar wh Kima givg this heroic speech about beg a p, and her iends are like, “that’s so amazg. But this group of all gay people beg like, “we famoly and historilly love ps.
So if you have a gay character, [an exec on a show] might not want to make them super effemate.