Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

This week we're re-releasing an Instagram live conversation recorded in June 2020

so it's one of my very favorite conversations of all time with Ashley Marie Preston,

who has since become a very close close close close friend of mine who I love so much.

Brigha Tasker, what does pride mean to you?

Hi everyone, we are going to have a gorgeous prank conversation with Ashley Marie Preston.

So, Ashley Marie Preston, if you've been not had the pleasure to know who she is,

she is an award-winning media personality commentator award-winning journalist.

She also is the first open out trans woman to run for state office and also there's like one

other gorgeous thing that you are besides my friend and person who I just look at too so much

and so excited to see on this gorgeous morning. Also you started your essential,

which is your new organization which is so important that we're going to talk about all of it.

But first off, coming from the like West Coast at night in the morning giving me all this glamour.

What glamour? Listen, I spend most of my day in a scarf and I take that scarf off and I

flew it up and I go and these earrings are carrying all the weight trust me.

We never part too honey, those are so pretty. I'm living for this adorment of shell.

Thank you. So, this is basically kind of what I wanted to kind of ask you about today

on this gorgeous life which is kind of what we were texting about yesterday. I got to really

meet you and get to know you a few weeks ago when we did the New York City Pride kind of virtual

fireside chat and since then I've gotten to know you more like behind the scenes which has been

such a such a pleasure but I know that for so many people this pride it's like we want to celebrate

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