Op-ed: The Black Gay Trans Man at Minneapolis City Hall

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Op-ed: The Black Gay Trans Man at Minneapolis City Hall

http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/09/08/op-ed-black-gay-trans-man-minneapolis-city-hall

The Advocate/BY Phillipe Cunningham September 08 2015 6:00 AM ET 

"I was assigned a seat next to Mayor Betsy Hodges my very first meeting as an appointed member of the city of Minneapolis's Youth Violence Prevention Executive Committee. I was incredibly nervous. I was not an executive of anything, but a rather vocal youth worker in a low-paid fellowship, sitting next to the mayor of Minneapolis."