This is a show about individual experience and personal identity.

There may be times when folks use identifying words or phrases that don't feel right to you.

That's part of what we're exploring here.

Please listen with an open heart, and as always, I welcome your polite, engaged feedback,

and I encourage you to continue the conversation in your own life and with your own community.

Welcome to Query.

Hey Queros, Cammy here. This is our final replay episode of the summer.

Actually, I don't know if that's true. Maybe something terrible will happen. I

will have to travel again. Or maybe something amazing will happen. I don't have to travel again.

But this week we are talking, well, I was talking this week, I'm re-talking. This week is

as Amber Hikes. Amber Hikes works for the Philadelphia Mayor's office of LGBT Affairs and

created the Philly Pride flag, which I wear on my motorcycle jacket. This person's important to me.

I love this chat, and please enjoy.

I've been feeling wrong, but I'm still in my toilet. I know, I know, I know it's careless.

Well, I, first of all, thank you so much for being patient through technical difficulties.

Absolutely, it's not a problem at all.

And I usually start the show by having my guests introduce themselves. So, would you introduce yourself?

Yeah, be glad to. So, my name is Amber Hikes, and I am the executive director of the Mayor's Office

of LGBT Affairs for the City of Philadelphia. Which is really, which is really rad?

Yeah, it's really rad actually, because people don't really know this, but our office of LGBT Affairs

is one of only four similar offices in the entire country. See, that was going to be my follow-up

question. Where the follow-up question was going to be like, is this a thing? Because I don't know

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