What is the setting in the memoir, All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto?

The United States of America, with its long history of racial tensions between whites and non-whites, and its additional history of similar tensions between heterosexuals and queer people, is the broad-strokes setting of the narrative. There are relatively few references to both the country and its history, but what references are included are pointed, subtle, and clearly evocative of those similarly dangerous, and troubling, histories.