“Finally, one day when I was twelve or thirteen, found this National Enquirer wit anatide about Billy Tipton.
(Editor's note: Bily Tipton was an American jazz musician. Although he lived his adult life as a man, it was discovered after his death in 1989 that he was assigned female at birth.)
I hid this National Enquirer in our house like it was a Playboy magazine, so I could come home and look at it. And I stopped praying to God every day, because at least I then had a role model in Billy Tipton.
Billy died in poverty before his time because he didn't want to seek medical intervention to blow his cover. And still, just learning about him gave me a grounding to know that I wasn't crazy. There are people out there like me, that I can relate to, and I can figure out hopefully how to move forward.”
— Kylar Broadus in The Book of Pride
