The Lesbian Agenda Sophie Santos says it didn’t take long to come out of her shell. However, growing up a “Spanish-Filipino army brat” in a very white, heteronormative world would eventually send her back in.Santos says little Sophie was “shy for only about five years and then became outgoing as hell.”Santos explains that because her family continually moved, “I couldn’t afford to be shy.
It was sink or swim,” she recalls. “Moving also meant I had to be a master at cutting bullshit and getting to the good stuff.