Íris Ellenberger dveloped her identity as a cisgender lesbian during her years as a teen and a young adult in the 1990s and 2000s. The discourses on homosexuality in the magazines of her youth and young adulthood had a profound effect on that development. The article "No bare bottoms" is a part of her journey toward understanding the wider implications of those discourses.
Þorsteinn Vilhjálmsson was a teenager in the 2000s, growing up as a heterosexual, cisgender male at the same time that Icelandic media discourses started increasingly painting Iceland as a model state for queer rights, changing the national imaginary. The article “No Bare Bottoms” is part of his discovery of the changes then taking place in Icelandic society, dimly felt but never contextualised at the time.