When I was 1 of 30...

In honor of Pride Month, T, the New York Times Style Magazine, asked 30 creative people, ranging in age from 34 to 93, to share an indelible memory from their 30th year of life. Respondents include several authors whose works we've read, including Edmund White, Danez Smith,  John Rechy and Alexander Chee, who begins his contribution: "It was 1997, and all my lovers kept giving me books."