Queer Quips

How did you come out?

"Heather Sanderson - known as the community chest in later years - did a striptease for me in the storage closet in grade one. When I came out of that closet, I never returned."

Sonja Mills appears in Strange Sisters at Buddies in Bad Times Thursday and Friday (June 14 and 15), 8 pm

"My gay friends think I'm completely gay, but my straight friends think it's a phase."

DJ Blackcat

"I came out at age 18, but I couldn't tell my parents. My drag mother took me to my first-ever gay bar."

Enza Supermodel

"With forceps - a bloody, screaming preemie!"

Ellen Ray Hennessy

"I came out on a cruise ship bound for England. It was the last night of the voyage, I was standing at the rail at the back of the ship, and this tall, gorgeous Frenchman came up to me and said, 'You aren't thinking of jumping, are you?'"

Edward Louis Cook

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