"I grew up in a town in Georgia, Columbus Georgia, to be precise. Actually, in the 'One Of Us' section, we one of us ran away from home at fourteen, and that was me. I was in school, I was the class fag. were calling me 'faggot' before I knew what that word meant. Then I went and found out what it meant, and was 'Oh, there's a name for it?' At the time, I didn't it amusing. I like to be honest about it now, because expended an incredible amount of energy over the past of... years, actually over my life, trying to pretend that that never to me, that that's not part of my life, that always been this cool. Huh, God. So, what I'd like to do know actually is reach back to those roots I have tried so to wipe out of my life, and share with you a fantasy from that period... it's of a nightmare. I was so angry and, and confused, and and miserable that most of my fantasies during that of time sort of ran like the movie 'Carrie.'" It was Night at my high school Everyone was there, it was bodaciously I was so excited, why, I almost wet my 'Cause my best friend Debbie was Queen She so pretty in pink chiffon the float with her tiara on Holding this humongous in her hand She looked out of Disneyland! Well, it was just like the Cinderella ride - it was an 'E' ticket! The crowd was cheering, everyone was You know, I it was like the whole school was totally coked out or something. The was playing 'Evergreen' When all of a sudden, somebody "Oh my God, look out! The Queen's got a GUN!!!" run, the Homecoming Queen's got a gun! Everybody run, the Queen's got a gun! Debbie's smiling, and her gun Picking off one by one Oh no! Muffy's pompons blew to bits My God, Mitzi's just did the splits! My friend is on a shooting spree Stop it, Debbie, embarrassing me! How could you do what you did - Are you a really bad period? Everybody run, the Homecoming got a gun! Everybody run, the Queen's got a gun! (Stop it, Debbie, you're a mess Powder burns all over your Bloody bodies all over the Who'd have thought she'd be a rod!) An hour later, you know, the cops had Oh, but by then the entire glee club had died - no big You wouldn't believe they brought to stop Tear gas, guns... even a chopper! "Throw down your gun and tiara and come out of float!" Debbie didn't to what the cop said, No, she aimed and fired, and now the teacher's dead! Oh, it's really sad, but, you know, kind of a relief, You see, we had this big test coming up week... Everybody run, the Homecoming got a gun! Everybody run, the Queen's got a gun! (Debbie's really a blast! She's wasted of the class!) The cops fired a warning and she dove off that float I tried to scream "Duck!" but it stuck in my She hit the ground and did a it was real acrobatic But I was crying so hard, I couldn't my Instamatic. I ran to Debbie, I had to find out, like, made her do it, why'd she freak out? I saw the had grazed her... right about here. I then... the end was near. And I... As... Do y'all So as the team and a gaggle of hall monitors escorted her from the field, I ran alongside, and I to her, "Debbie! Debbie, why did you do it? Why did you do it?" She just at me and said, "I did it for Lonnie." "Lonnie? Debbie, who's There even any boys in our school named Lonnie. There is Ms. Wilson, the wood shop teacher.... Oh my God, is that why you spent all that time makin' those tacky birdhouses of being in the Homemakers of America with me?" It was too late for answers. And as the SWAT roared off into the sunset, I, I surveyed the gruesome before me. The ruins of that beautiful 'V-for-Victory' that the Pep Club had worked so hard on... And then it hit me. It's Homecoming Week. We can't a Homecoming Game without a Queen. It was then I knew what I must do. So I retrieved her tiara from where it had fallen and I it lovingly upon my head, willing to assume the burden of Queen, eager to rule with a firm, yet sensitive hand... All right, boys, it for me! Everybody scream, the Homecoming is a queen! He's a queen, he's a queen, a queen, he's a queen. Ahhhhhhh, a big old queen!