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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.
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” —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.
“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?
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BOOK REVIEW: “THE 2000S MA ME GAY” BY GRACE PERRY
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.