When Sean DeLear died prematurely in Vienna in 2017, his friends discovered an extensive diary he kept around the age of fifteen. Still living with his Christian parents in the notoriously racist Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley, Sean wrote almost every day about crushes and hustling, waterbeds, blackmail, Donna Summer, glory holes, racism, and shoplifting gay porn. DeLear would go on to become the frontman for the Los Angeles power pop-punk band Glue. His diaries capture a moment in Los Angeles underground history that shaped his own queer coming of age.