ABSTRACT

“The pep talks and singing ‘God Save Us Nelly Queens,’ oh, that started right away. You see, I already had a problem, but I was coping with it. And I saw these queens. These silly men! At the Cat they were one thing, and outside they were something else. And I thought, ‘How could these people do this? How could they lead these double lives? How could they be killing themselves? So I started to talk to them about it. I had no problem that made me hide. I had no problems like that, like you've had.”