Queery: Mara Keisling
By Joey DiGuglielmo on November 17, 2011
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/11/17/queery-mara-keisling/Mara Keisling is the founding executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. A trans woman and a parent, Keisling is one of the country's leading voices for transgender rights and has appeared in many prominent media outlets promoting the organization, which she helped found in 2003.
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How long have you been out and who was the hardest person to tell?
I came out almost 13 years ago in early 1999. No doubt, telling myself was the hardest.
Who's your LGBT hero?
It's a tie between every young trans person I have met and Lisa Mottet, who runs the trans rights project at the Task Force.
