So I embarked on my music career and I was playing with a club band. We were traveling and working just about everywhere we could. We were based out of New York and when we were in town we would go out to the after hour clubs in Manhattan at around 5 or 6 o’clock in the morning. We would party until the afternoon. It was a period of escape for me. It was one of personal abuse, drugs and excessive indulgence. Anything to turn off the noise inside my head and to mask my confusion about who I was. We would become immersed in the underground club scene of New York. The band would go there to expand their minds and to hear the latest music before anyone else would. For me it was to be around the crowd, which was full of all varieties of gender revolution. The clubs were filled with muscle boys, club kids, drag queens and a thousand expressions of gender variance and sexual preferences. It was quite a scene, but most important to me were the transgender girls I would meet.