“A humorous and reflective journey of self-discovery via pop culture.” – Kirkus Reviews
A “laugh-out-loud debut…Perry’s casual, off-the-cuff charm and astute analyses mark her as a talented new voice.” — Publishers Weekly
“If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book.” — Sarah Pappalardo, editor-in-chief and co-founder of Reductress
“Witty. So honest, funny, smart, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen, co-head writer of SNL, author of How May We Hate You?
Today’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes, both fictional and real, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall from grace, Gossip Girl, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl,” country-era Taylor Swift, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And, for better or worse, these touch points shaped her adult identity. She came out on the other side like many millennials did: in her words, gay as hell.
Throw on your Von Dutch hats and join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the aughts, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance—a time not so long ago, which many seem to forget.
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