 I was just beginning to read about Audre Lorde and Rita Mae Brown. And even though I had been out of the closet for a while, I had not really picked up any gay literature. You know, it was very few pieces of literature. I think I had read Rufu Jungle, but not really any black lesbian people that I could identify. They were writers. So when she talked about this Audre Lorde woman that I had just read her book, Zambie, another spelling of my name, I felt, wow.