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Welcome to Query.

Hey QueryRos, Cammy here.

Today's episode is a chat with President of the Human Rights Campaign, Alfonso David.

This person is incredibly interesting and also, boy, I really, really enjoyed this conversation.

So thank you so much to Alfonso for making time.

I'm in what seems to be a very busy schedule and enjoy the episode.

I always have guests introduce themselves.

Would you introduce yourself?

Sure.

So my name is Alfonso David.

I am the president of the Human Rights Campaign, which is the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual,

transgender, and queer civil rights organization in the world.

It's got that really identifiable bumper sticker or whatever that

is for anybody that's like, wait, what is he talking about?

It's got an actual...

He will die.

I don't even know your pronouns if they're he, but he, him, his.

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