Proud Parents
by Laura Kiritsy
Editor-in-chief
Wednesday Jul 1, 2009
http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3&id=93238These days, Ken and Marcia Garber of Quincy probably spend more time at LGBT events than the average LGBT person. From the transgender lobby days on Beacon Hill, to Boston Pride, to the Transgender Youth Summit held in the basement of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston on June 18, the two are familiar faces to many LGBT leaders and activists, particularly those in the transgender community. They do this in memory of their son, CJ Garber, a 20-year-old transgender man who died of a drug overdose in January.
"We keep going because like I said, I would hope that all parents would support their kids and this is just my way to keep supporting CJ," said Ken Garber during an interview at the Youth Summit, which was sponsored by the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition. "We show up at the different things and people ask us to speak; if we can do it we do it. Like I said, I wish I could say I represented all parents, but I don't."
