"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 Today's 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 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, those touchpoints 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 2000's, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance-a time not so long ago, that people seem to forget.

From The Onion contributor, a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman.

About the Author
GRACE PERRY's work has been published in a variety of outlets, including The New Yorker, New York magazine's The Cut, BuzzFeed, Outside, and Eater. She is also a longtime, regular contributor to The Onion and the feminist satire site Reductress. Most of her work, comedy and journalism alike, interrogates the intersection of queerness, pop culture and the internet. She lives in LA.


Book Information
ISBN 9781250760142
Author Grace Perry
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 228g
Dimensions(mm) 209mm * 137mm * 19mm