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“I essentially dropped out of high school, and something I did in the meantime was come to the LGBTQ Youth Space. The Youth Space was on 1st St. and the San Salvador area, and I would take the bus down there every day and walk from Santa Clara Street. I did that every day because I wasn't going to school, but it was like a second home for me. I met many people there. I met my drag mother there. I love her to her death, and I wouldn't be who I am without her.
And you know something about the LGBTQ Youth Space? The world thinks that we're forcing people to make changes to themselves, but I think that we encourage people to be and search for their authentic selves. That's something I learned, not how to find myself, but how to build myself.”
