Author: The JT LeRoy Story Page #3

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So I get there.

They page Dr. Owens.

-Dr. Owens.

Albert:

I am so terrified.

I meet Dr. Owens,

and he asked me

what my name is.

And I just thought,

"How did I get here?

Really fast -- Speedie."

[ Laughs ]

That became my name.

[ Camera shutter clicks ]

She was [British accent]

"Hello. I'm Speedie.

Nice to meet you."

[ Normal voice ]

She's British.

[ Click ]

[ Click ]

So Jeremy wanted

to be a better writer,

so I was reading everything,

everything

I can get my hands on.

And it just resonated

with everything that...

-[ Grunts, groans ]

-...lived inside me.

Boy:
[ Screams ]

And I used to pray not,

"God, please make me

a beautiful pretty girl."

It was, "Let me wake up

as a cute blond-haired,

blue-eyed boy --

a blond-haired, blue-eyed boy

that a man would love

and want to f***."

[ Telephone rings ]

Silverberg:
So,

this young person reached out.

There was a kooky factor.

[ Southern accent ] I mean,

when someone's talking like that

on the phone saying,

"I'm homeless,

and I need to get through

to Dennis Cooper.

and I'm walking around

with a fax machine."

It seemed perfect for Dennis,

and Dennis went for it.

[ Telephone rings ]

[ Receiver clicks, dial tone ]

Well I mean it was all, like,

you know,

"I love your book 'Try'."

It's my bible,

and I totally relate

to the character

who lets guys sexually use him.

[ Click ]

He would say

he was calling from --

Sometimes,

he said a public phone.

[ Coin rattles ]

Sometimes, he said

he was at a friend's,

and then eventually

the friend became Speedie.

There wasn't that much time

where Jeremy was homeless,

and eventually he got

this boyfriend, Astor.

So, you have

this cast of characters,

and suddenly I need Astor

to be Geoff.

[ Ding! ]

Because Astor didn't exist.

Astor was just

on the astral plane.

So, it came to pass

that Jeremy is now living

with Speedie and Astor

as a family.

[ Click ]

Being with my Barbies,

I controlled,

and it ordered the universe.

And my Barbie world was not

a happy world.

There's actually a photo

where I have them all lined up

naked with their butts

in the air.

And they're going

to be disciplined.

I'd make these really intense,

very intense stories.

My Barbies committed crimes

of rape

and assault

and child abuse.

They were injured,

and I could make them bleed.

They were given black eyes.

I had no idea

that the way I played

Barbie dolls wasn't normal.

[ Click ]

Gradually, the story

of Terminator began to come out.

[ Click, whir ]

He said that he was from

a Southern Baptist background

with sadistic,

fundamentalist grandparents.

[ Liquid splashes, boy screams ]

One of whom had made him bathe

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