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THE 2000S MA ME GAY
” —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. 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. “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.
THE 2000S MA ME GAY: ESSAYS ON POP CULTURE
” —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.
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My ial reactn to “The 2000s Ma Me Gay” was that wasn’t as funny as the tle would suggt. Perry discs how the batn of Catholic high school tn (ex., homosexualy is like alholism and people n rist the urge), the lbian vilifitn plot of Mean Girls (Janis was perceived as gay and therefore not to be tsted) and the media swirl around Ldsay Lohan’s relatnship wh Samantha Ronson (ex., Perez Hilton’s vrlic nickname “LezLo”), led to ternalized homophobia that took years to ’s full of smart, bg mentary on tn and media that feel credibly relevant today wh “Don’t Say Gay” bills and sensivy around public “outgs” and mental health. While none of the other says matched the brilliance of that one, there were still elements of each say I did enjoy — even as an elr Millennial that was a tad too old to appreciate Disney channel origal movi, Glee and Gossip Girl — bee of three recurrg them: homophobia (ternalized and external), velopg a sexual inty and learng how to be gay through observatn.
The love for MTV’s “Road Rul, ” and one of my first same-sex csh, Shane (“Real-World Gays and Real World Gays).
Rowlg’s post-publitn outg of Alb Dumbledore and her subsequent TERF bias (“Harry Potter and the Half-Assed Gay Character”).
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The legacy of Ellen DeGener’ g out paired wh the stag of beg the closet (“Be the PR Team You Wish to See the World”)’s half-assed attempts at gay cln even though they are perceived as “woke” (“Disney Channel Prents: Sapphic Overton”). " --Sarah Pappalardo, edor chief and -founr of Rctrs 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 hell.