Therese: I Won't Go Away

When this interview started, it originated inside her house. In front of us lay a wooden coffee table that had only my notebooks and a large jasbiscus (jasmine/ hibiscus) iced tea that had grown warm driving from downtown Walnut Creek to Carmel Valley.


I would consider myself a humanist,
I can’t consider myself liberal because
I’m not gonna sit on someone’s wall and
Yell:

“I’m here,
I’m queer,
I won’t go away”

I think they’re painfully aware of that.

I just live my life and
Try to be as humane
As possible and
I make my political decisions
Informed by that as well