Status Updates From Indestructible: Growing Up ...

"What we needed wasn't that temporary retreat nestled within a thick white line (drugs), but each other. It was always difficult to find each other.

Healing is sparse and concealed. Healing is harder to come by than cheap dope, random acquaintances, and fatality."

"Tolerance is fear in disguise,"
I thought. Queer communities don't need tolerance, but acceptance, understanding, and straight people saying, "What can I do?" What I saw weren't alliances but queer Latinos doing the work of spreading knowledge and advocacy.

"Why do I have to do all the fucking work? I already have to deal with the challenge of surviving"
"so are you gay?"
"Geezus Eddy, why are you making me choose sides?"

This was a common exchange during talks about queerness and how queer and self-questioning folks were always the ones teaching.