Now, after being at Florence Reizenstein School and around white people for the first time, I started to realize how poor my family was and how much I didn't have. I also realized how rigid and restrictive my church community was. When you've never experienced an alternative to your own culture or circumstances, you don't always know there's something else outside of your bubble -- that a different way of life is possible. But now that I'd been immersed in another kind of environment, and the opportunities that came with it, I made the conscious choice to stay in the light.
-- Billy Porter, Unprotected, p. 40
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