"I have lived in Richmond since the mid-1970's and have been an activist most of those years. I have always found Richmond to be a welcoming city and I love seeing all the progress that has been made."
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Just a few days after Christmas, Caroline and brother sat in her car while running errands. Music was playing from Caroline’s iPhone and her brother went to change the song. That’s when he noticed her phone’s background, a rainbow-clad image associated with LGBTQ pride. Without warning, he asked his sister, “Are you gay?”
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I was born and raised here so I've had the opportunity to watch RVA blossom into the thriving city it is now.
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It was time to make official, and address what I had always known inside. I am a transgender person.
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Coming out to my mother was the big tipping point. There was something more permanent about telling her versus just telling friends at school.
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I knew I liked boys when I was four. I had a crush on my future brother in law and followed him around when he visited.
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My story isn't very interesting or dramatic. I, very luckily, was brought up in an extremely hippy, tree hugging, musical loving, democratic, granola eating environment.
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I've known I was gay since 5th or 6th grade. Maybe even earlier, but those years were the first I can remember knowing something was different about me.
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