The first small and simple volume of Quirk-e’s collected writings was copied and staple bound. Twelve brave queer elders share memoirs of their early experiences. Each story or poem speaks of their courage to defy convention and take a step outside the bounds that were imposed on young queer lives. They unveil decisions to take their lives into their own hands long before their identities and desires were legal or even named.
Greta Hurst, who was born in the 1930s says in My 17th Summer,
“In those frightening moments, I became a determined woman. I was a child no longer and I was paddling for my life, not in a grave at the bottom of the lake.”
