While I appreciate the topics the author covers and her experiences, I did not like the formatting of this book at all. 

I'm not sure about the physical book, but the ebook version I read was chockful of footnotes in almost every chapter, with a lot of them giving me almost no relevant information. I really disliked having to be taken out of the experience with every (very short) chapter and be forced to look through footnotes that added almost nothing most of the time. Additionally, I didn't really like the chapters describing other stories, movies or tv shows because they were just written so differently from the chapters actually describing the author's real life situation for the same reason I didn't like the footnotes. Also I think the fact that this was a LOT of old American tv references just meant that I (based in Asia my whole life) understood basically nothing because I've just never ever heard of these movies. I wish the author has stayed in her own story much more instead of delving periodically into pop culture references because I think her own story was one that was so much more important than those at the cinema. While yes, she could have made references to such pop culture moments that described queerness, I don't think it should have taken full precedence over her own in her own book, with chapters about these pop culture references usually being longer than the ones about her own life.