The shallow reading of GAY THOUGHTS might mistake Moreno’s use of gay lifestyle tropes and internet vernacular (such as “I AM HOMIE SEXUAL” and “POWER BOTTOM AUTUMN”) as the book’s content—but these are the medium, not the message.

This book challenges the paradoxically ephemeral permanence of a last-season, by now household meme to the foremost unplugged. It’s either a meme, meme-ing its own approaching obsolescence by appropriating the art book, or a riot of erotics and fandom requiring the material timelessness of Polaroid and printed page.