" First I was a little boy in my mother’s house,” he began. “Imitating the voices on the radio. Then one day I didn’t have any mother. I didn’t have any cousins. Because one day they caught me doing whatever with whomever’s son. And from that second on, I did not have any people. I did not belong to anyone. I could not run home because there was no home. You know . . . you know. Somehow I lived. Somehow I got on some bus. Somehow I met Anthony, and he saved me and I moved into this place. And I got a second dream, of being on the stage. My first dream had come true. I had my man. I was set. Then I was waiting for the second dream to happen. But somehow Anthony was gone and then he was married and then he was dead. Why did he have to do that? From then on I have loved this one and that one. Waiting, waiting, any second now there would be this new world. And somehow now I’m old. And I am still in that same apartment. And somehow they won’t let me on their stage. And somehow the world did not change. "

― Sarah Schulman , The Cosmopolitans