“The queer experience is really beautiful,” Esposito said. “We have an ability to figure out who we are and to try to connect with our true selves. That will remain.' - NBCOUT
“I really love myself as a younger person a lot more than I did before writing this book,” she said. “I felt so wrong as a child and had a lot of shame, and then I had the opportunity to be like, ‘Oh, I was kind of awesome.’”
Now, she said she regularly looks at awkward old photos of herself and recommends other queer people do the same. “I see them every day, and I'm reminded that this isn't really a shameful person.”Before Esposito’s memoir was released March 24, she was fully prepared for a “Save Yourself” book tour — but then the coronavirus pandemic shut down the world. When her in-person promotion hopes fell through, like the rest of us, she turned to social media and Zoom.
“Everybody who's been speaking with me, I know personally, and that's been really nice at a time like this,” she said. “It's amazing that we live in a time when there's other formats that exist. It actually becomes even bigger, in a sense, in how you're connecting with people.”Esposito's Instagram followers were encouraged to download Zoom meeting IDs and join in, thus salvaging her book tour in a way she'd never imagined.
“I mean, I'm a small business owner myself, right?” Esposito asked. “To be a comic is to be a small business owner. So I certainly understand the sorts of pressures that a small business owner would be thinking about right now, and also folks who work in the gig economy. If there's no gig to do, we aren't really protected in a larger way.
As her memoir attests, Esposito has spent a long time learning to abide by the airplane oxygen mask rule: Put your own mask on first before assisting others. Katy’s illness made Esposito put this lesson to the test, as she struggled not to play caretaker for Katy, who had to be quarantined, away from Esposito, in the Los Angeles home they share. Esposito wrote about the harrowing experience in
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