Supergay!
A Memoir
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Publisher Description
Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear glitter.
Frankie Grande always knew he was different. He just didn’t know it was his superpower. Growing up glittery in a grayscale world, he found refuge in the fantasy realms of rainbow belts, telepathic mutants, and intergalactic girlbosses. (Looking at you, Rainbow Brite.) But behind the show tunes and sparkles was a lonely little boy fighting big, scary feelings—about identity, addiction, abandonment, and belonging.
In Supergay!, Frankie turns his hot mess history into comic-book canon, reframing every heartbreak and hard moment as part of a campy, chaotic, deeply human hero’s journey. With outrageous honesty and unapologetic humor, he tells the story of how a fabulous queer nerd learned to stop hiding, start healing, and fully embrace the power of being too much.
This isn’t just a memoir. It’s a technicolor call to arms for anyone who’s ever felt weird, othered, or alone. Because in a world that wants you to tone it down, the bravest thing you can do is turn the volume all the way up.
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Actor and Big Brother star Grande debuts with a campy ode to embracing one's differences. In pithy essays, Grande recalls his privileged Florida childhood with a doting mother and often-absent father ("By the time I was ten, I had a hundred Disney World trips under my belt. And I'm not even exaggerating"), his difficulty fitting in as a flamboyant kid in the 1980s and '90s, and his winding journey to accepting his sexuality before coming out to his fraternity brothers in college. Grande also delves into his struggles with drug and alcohol, and recounts how his younger sister, pop star Ariana Grande, helped place him in "a very privileged, bougie rehab experience" that led to eight years of sobriety and counting. The tone throughout is so self-adulatory it can border on boastful, but Grande's sweet admiration for his husband, Hale Leon ("My relationship with Hale is a joyful, game-based connection"), saves the day, as does his palpable desire to "live out loud and proud in the hope that permission for others to do the same, even in the reddest corners of the country." What this fizzy self-portrait lacks in humility it makes up for in vitality.
