{"product_id":"the-2000s-made-me-gay-essays-on-pop-culture-9781250760142","title":"The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Onion\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReductress\u003c\/i\u003e 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 woman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e A Lambda Literary Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Honest, funny, smart, and illuminating.\" --Anna Drezen, co-head writer of \u003ci\u003eSNL\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If you came of age at the intersection of \u003ci\u003eMean Girls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe L Word\u003c\/i\u003e: Read this book.\" --Sarah Pappalardo, editor in chief and co-founder of \u003ci\u003eReductress\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday'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, \u003ci\u003eGossip Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGRACE PERRY's work has been published in a variety of outlets, including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, New York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's \u003ci\u003eThe Cut, BuzzFeed, Outside, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEater.\u003c\/i\u003e She is also a longtime, regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Onion\u003c\/i\u003e and the feminist satire site \u003ci\u003eReductress.\u003c\/i\u003e Most of her work, comedy and journalism alike, interrogates the intersection of queerness, pop culture and the internet. She lives in LA.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615924588818,"sku":"9781250760142","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7426c964-dcb9-42e9-8a77-5e71130ecf44.jpg?v=1732500087","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-2000s-made-me-gay-essays-on-pop-culture-9781250760142","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}