All that I was and the woman I was becoming was savagely thrown away by three men. Three men that brutally assaulted me, not only with their bodies, but with foreign objects also.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me

I'm a non-believer. I don't believe in the existence of a God. I don't believe in the Christian dogma. I find it horrifyingly silly. The intolerance that flows from organized religion is the most dangerous thing on the planet.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

I got out of the car and I tried to bail, I tried to run, I tried to leave because I didn't know what was going to happen. By the time we got there I pretty much thought that (Hugo) was setting me up.