The following is an excerpt from Amrou Al-Kadhi's Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between from HarperCollins Publishers.For the twenty-fourth night that August, I found myself crossed-legged on the floor of a damp, pungent dressing room.
As the rumblings of an Edinburgh crowd reverberated from the venue next door – I say venue, it was more like a cave – I used my little finger to apply gold pigment to my emerald-painted lips.