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Nice to meet you.

It's so great to meet you.

Thank you so much for having me on.

Of course.

Well, thank you for being here.

Have you been in New York since you were first in New York?

Because I know you grew up in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, which we'll get into.

But have you been in New York since you first came to New York?

I've been in New York since, I've been in New York since the 90s, since 1998, since college.

So I grew up in those places and then came right after high school,

which needed desperately to like find somewhere to go to be with the

creatives and New York was a place to go.

To feel accepted.

Yeah.

I feel like even, do you feel like even places like L.A. or Miami still aren't as

accepting as a place like New York. Is it the most accepting

place in the world? Have you traveled the world? You know, I have traveled a bunch. And I would say

that New York is probably not the most accepting place in the world. Probably not. It's definitely

extremely diverse. And even it's interesting, even in places where there's diversity, sometimes it doesn't have all the other things you need. A lot of places that I've been to in the South and in the Midwest seem to be really accepting.

And the biggest, I guess, signal of acceptance for me, for the most part, is as a trans person,

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