Speaking for ourselves -- "We are the ones we have been waiting -- This is for me... " -- Was ich bin -- Grown-up -- What are you? -- Where the dead live -- Problem kids -- I was only 13 when... -- Don't ask because I won't tell -- Grateful -- Bent -- Butch -- Letter from a Butch -- Different: My experiences as an intersexed gay boy -- Know -- Coming out in Middle School -- Proud to be an FOB -- Dark child -- How I got here & where I'm goin' -- Untitled -- Line -- Crazy girl: a reconstructed memory in three pieces -- Secret -- Exorcisms -- Am I happy? -- Affirmation -- Tasting home -- Mensajes -- Side effects -- Bruised -- Never too good at dressing barbies -- Poems whispered in the dark -- Secret hungers -- Tug of war grip -- Process of change -- Healthy attitude -- Promise -- Piecing Together my racial identity -- Private anniversary with mom -- America's on sale! -- Washed in the blood -- Broken -- Further falling -- Poem for us -- Halloween 1997 -- Relearning the mothertongue: Notes from a second-generation queer -- Our story -- Chicago Heights, 1984 -- Wish I knew the last four verses of America the Beautiful -- Letter from a young queer Working-class woman of color -- Sensitivity comes -- Untitled -- Another country -- Walking home -- Labels, names, & identity -- Dancing in the shadows, an interview -- Fingers -- Straight-out pain -- Why life? -- Diary excerpts, 1995-1998 -- Poem for Matthew Shepard -- Manifesto -- Memory of bathing -- Queer conference dinner -- Diversity -- Beginning revolutions -- October 20 -- Nothing is more cruel -- Guerilla poetry manifesto -- Excerpts from impossible body -- Queer 101: A glossary -- plug in: Resources for queer youth -- Affirmation

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