This powerful YA memoir-manifesto follows journalist and LGBTQ+ activist George M. Johnson as they explore …
Although I couldn’t wait to escape New Jersey, her album gave me the opportunity to escape in my mind. I would sit in my car by myself and blast her. Every song spoke to me. Her femininity was everything that I was feeling inside of me. She was just so sassy, and sexy, and powerful. I wanted to be her. Well, not really be her, but I would daydream about her. I wanted to be me, in Virginia, and dancing to her. I wanted to be me dancing to her.
Track 17 ‘Chapter 13: Setting myself free, or setting myself up’, 07:04–07:34
On listening to Beyoncé’s first solo album while yearning to be gay away at college.