• ELIXHER
• On February 16, 2012

To reinforce the sometimes overlooked fact that there are black people in the LGBTQ community, and also that there are LGBTQ people in the black community, I’m From Driftwood’s very first Community Spotlight will feature stories from the black community all this week. I’m From Driftwood is also making a commitment to feature more stories of all people of color and different ethnicities beyond this week.

Amber shares a touching story about her mother, which gives a hopeful reminder that not all coming out stories in the black LGBTQ community are bad. As Amber says herself, “my experience is that people of color, when I hear their coming out stories, there’s always some element of tragedy or real struggle or estrangement from their families, and while that certainly has been the case with a lot of people, it wasn’t my experience.”

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