The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

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: 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 touchstones shaped her adult identity. She came out on the othe...