Pageboy: A Memoir

by Elliot Page

Hollywood is built on leveraging queerness. Tucking it away when needed, pulling it out when beneficial, while patting themselves on the back.

Nature takes time, all of our growth does.

I was not and had never been a part of a queer community, how to access such a thing was not just a mystery but an impossibility. The loss of which was sizable.

they looked at me with a quiet recognition and said, “I could see that…” A sturdiness shining through, a light from under the door.

This flesh vessel, always vastly smarter than me, if only I’d managed to listen.