How Y'all Doing? Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

by Leslie Jordan

I read somewhere once that our parents “did the best they could with the light they had to see with.”

The swimming pool at our recreation center is the Gay Pool. The nearby dog park is the Gay Dog Park. Starbucks is Gaybucks. The hardware store is the Gay Hardware Store. Gay this. Gay that. Gay everything. Gay. Gay. Gay.

Because I plan to live my life asking myself constantly, “Well, what would Dolly do?”