Joel Kim Booster

And it was before that, that I can remember telling my brother and my sister that I liked looking at naked boys more than naked girls.

And so I had a really hyper awareness of being different in that way, much before I had an awareness of being different racially from my family.

Yeah.

You know, I mean, you're probably aware of right now all this stuff that's coming out about, you know, the hundreds of thousands of babies from the mid 80s to the late 90s that were stolen in Korea.

They can't locate my birth certificate in Korea.

The State Department can't find it.

The Korean government can't find it.

No one can find my original birth certificate in Korea.

The adoption agency that my parents used can't

It was shuttered years and years and years ago.

There's just no record of my birth in Korea, which is like right now is not the moment in America where I want to have no birth certificate.

I'm sorry to laugh at that.

Yeah.

It's a weird time for me right now.

I have a provisional birth certificate that Illinois issued when I was adopted, but they no longer accept that as a birth certificate under this administration.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I have a passport.

I have like, you know, they accepted it before before enough for me to get the passport.

But now, you know, I had to go in and get a new real ID recently and they wouldn't accept it.