As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
I've always considered myself a person of color.
I am definitely a person of color.
I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you can't avoid that if you're a person of color in this country.
I think that there's not always been queer person of color representation in pop and so I'm making the most of it because that is who I am.
As a person of color, I feel like I'm socialized to feel like a remnant of poverty or something primitive, and I don't feel like that at all. I can be myself and be me.
I feel that, as a person of color, I've always been interested in the stories that are quiet and the stories that often get overlooked.
I know that some people, when they are growing up and they - as a person of color in a majority community - that they may feel as if they are left out, or they feel a bit strange.
