Reviews tagging 'Biphobia'

The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture, by Grace Perry

9 reviews

ninjamuse's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

Minor: Biphobia and Transphobia

lilybearillini3's review

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

From the introduction, Grace Perry had me hooked! I rarely laugh while reading a book, even if it's funny. This book broke that for me as I laughed many times throughout.  Grace and I are technically in the same generation, albeit I'm so close to the next one.  Her voice is exactly my humor, so I felt like I had a grasp on the pop culture moments that were before my time.   A++ for essay titles, my favorite being "Harry Potter and the Half-Assed Gay Character."  "Taylor Swift Made Me a U-Haul Dyke" is one of my favorite chapters, because I semi-grew up knowing and sometimes liking her and her music. I have to agree with Grace, listening to her music made me a romantic, to my detriment at times.

I enjoyed reading Grace's experiences and her use of pop culture to tell these stories.  I found myself reflecting on my own journey in discovering my sexuality, often relating to the pop culture references.  It was a super fun read and I will be recommending to everyone.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Biphobia, Chronic illness, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Sexual content, and Medical content

livbarry's review

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

2.75

Desperately needed an editor and I will leave it at that…..

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Biphobia, Cancer, Outing, and Homophobia

Author unabashedly details dubiously consensual sex while under the influence

bryelle's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

3.5

The authors life experience of coming out, and working through being gay. The fun of the pop culture references and how they shaped not only the author but a generation of millennials to being this specific type of gay. The author only looks at the queer aspect of things, and does little to acknowledge other aspects of her identity. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Death

melaniekarin's review

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

Funny and touching memoir about growing up queer in the 2000s, all connected to queer and queer adjacent pop culture of the time. Especially enjoyed the essay on Katy Perry’s I Kissed A Girl.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, and Lesbophobia

reading_between_the_trees's review

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book got me. Perry put into words so many things that have shaped who I am without me even realizing it. The book covers a very specific set of media, but if you were consuming it at the time it came out, you were being influenced in a very specific way. It was like the puberty of queer media- when it was starting to become socially acceptable to portray queerness, but not so much that it was done overtly or correctly. Instead, it was done in a confusingly suppressed way that warped the brains of all the queer tweens watching.

Some highlights of the book were Perry's description of the layered closet, where she describes the various stages of coming out to yourself and then to others. Other great chapters were the one connecting the Taylor Swift songwriting framework to U-haul Dyke culture, the one absolutely calling out JKR for her half-assed admission of Dumbledore being gay, and the entire chapter on Disney's attempt to just take the parts they wanted from queerness for their characters.

But my favorite part of the book was where Perry flips  the quintessential gay question "do I want to be them or be with them?" from a realization of your sexuality to a realization of your gender: "do I want to be with them or do I want to be them?". Reading that was a "aha moment" for me in understanding my own sexuality. I would definitely recommend this book for anyone who was conscious for even part of the 2000s. Whether you're queer or not, this will give you a whole new look at some very familiar media from that time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Biphobia

Moderate: Death, Cancer, and Medical content

mallory10100's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

4.75

i loved this book, easily the most relatable book i’ve ever read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Biphobia, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Cursing and Death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual violence, and Suicide

i loved this book. at some points it felt like grace literally peeked inside my own brain. however i wish she used the D slur a lot less (yet i understand that it’s an a reclaimed fashion)

spaghettireads's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Cancer, Death, and Medical content

imstephtacular's review

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia