The hardest thing I ever had to do in my life was working on the street to make money. I had to have sex with men just to survive. I didn't like doing it, but if I wanted dope, if I wanted food, if I wanted to live, I had to do it. I didn’t have an education, I didn’t know how to work, I had nothing.
Read moreKaren on her relationship with the gay community
My deep relationship with the gay community starts in Stockton. Oh God, how many of us were there? I was living there, I went to school there by some mistake and it took me forever to get out of that town. I always had dreams of living in San Francisco.
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