num_pages: 256
description: From The Onion and Reductress contributor this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer womanTodays gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes both fictional and real but Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead she had to search for queerness in the teen cultural phenomena that the early aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohans fall from grace Gossip Girl Katy Perrys 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 identity and she came out on the other side as she puts it gay as hell.Join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the early 2000s before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptancea time not so long ago that people seem to forget.
language: English
title: The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
publisher: Griffin