What Gwen Araujo Taught Me

[Natasha]

What Gwen Araujo Taught Me

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amos-mac/gwen-araujo-death_b_1101132.html
11/19/11
Amos Mac

In 2002 I was living in San Francisco, working at a laundromat, going to protests that involved throwing furniture in the freeway, internally dealing with my own gender bull->-bleeped-<- and because of that, feeling like a complete fraud of a human being. Like many young people who feel that their sexuality and/or gender lives in a space outside of the norm, I ran to California's queer mecca via Greyhound bus, searching for a place to fit in with no specific address in mind. San Francisco was as far west as I could go without drowning in the Pacific Ocean, and I knew it was The Place where my kind of queer could untangle itself, figure out where it fit, and truly live for the first time.