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Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson Hosts Intimate Chats w/ Global LGBTQ Leaders & Their Allies
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Thursday May 28, 2015
Thursday May 28, 2015
Grammy winning songwriter producer Desmond
Child talks about his upcoming performance at Ty Herndon and GLAAD’s Concert
for Love and Acceptance that takes place at City Winery in Nashville,
Tennessee on June 12th with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. Child will join other celebrities and artists
including country music legend Crystal Gayle, Melinda Doolittle, the
lesbian alternative-country rock band Antigone Rising, Shelly Fairchild,
Billy Gilman, Jennifer Knapp, Jamie O'Neal and Pastor Stan Mitchell of
GracePointe Church. This inaugural country music event takes place
during the 2015 CMA Music Festival and will be co-hosted by Herndon and
fierce LGBT ally Meghan McCain. The event will also kick off GLAAD's
Southern Stories Summer Tour. Sarah Kate Ellis GLAAD President & CEO
stated, "Music connects us and transcends our differences. For the
first time in Music City, artists will join together to voice support
for the LGBT community and help us accelerate acceptance, not only in
country music, but across the nation." We talked to Desmond about how he
became involved in this groundbreaking concert event and his spin on
our LGBT issues.
When asked what his personal commitment is to LGBT civil rights Child
stated, “I personally do as many things as I can regarding our fight for
marriage equality and every aspect of our lives. I’m married to my
partner of 26 years now and we actually got married about a year and a
half ago. We have 13 year-old sons Roman and Nyro and we had struggled
to get married long ago in California then they stopped the marriages
and so we finally did it in Central Park and our sons were our ‘best
men’. So we want our family to be acknowledged as legitimate; sometimes
we’re so marginalized. When people talk about LGBT families it’s like Yeah, yeah but they’re not like real families like the kind that have rights and stuff and we want to put a face on what we are doing. We’ve always been part of Family Pride and we also made a movie called TWO: The Story Of Roman and Nyro to talk about the 12 year journey of having a family.”
For nearly three decades songwriter/producer Desmond Child has reigned
as one of music’s most successful creative forces. His list of accolades
includes Grammy awards, 70 Top 40 singles and songs that have sold over
300 million albums worldwide. His collaborations have included Bon
Jovi, Aerosmith, Ricky Martin, KISS and Cher. His hits as a songwriter
include "I Hate Myself for Loving You", "Livin' on a Prayer", "You Give
Love a Bad Name", "Bad Medicine", "I Was Made for Lovin' You", "Dude
(Looks Like a Lady), "Angel", "What it Takes", "Crazy", "The Cup Of
Life" and "Livin' la Vida Loca". His latest projects include Joss Stone,
Kelly Clarkson, The Scorpions, Hilary Duff, Meatloaf, Ace Young and Bon
Jovi. Desmond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008.
Child lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his husband Curtis Shaw and
their twin sons, Roman and Nyro.
For Info & Concert Tix: glaad.org/nashville
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Wednesday May 20, 2015
Wednesday May 20, 2015
Liz Page founder of the AIDS Walk Boston
& 5K Run that’s in its 30th year and takes place on Sunday June 7th talks Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™.
When the AIDS crisis hit Liz became a dedicated volunteer at the AIDS
Action Committee where she launched the AIDS Walk previously known as
From All Walks of Life which she managed for 5 years leading the team
that raised consciousness and millions of dollars towards fighting the
AIDS epidemic. This year the event returns to its roots on the Boston
Common where it continues to be New England’s largest HIV/AIDS awareness
raiser attracting thousands of participants who walk for different
reasons but walk together for one common cause: to support AIDS Action
and its work to prevent new infections, maximize the health outcomes of
those infected and to end the epidemic here in Massachusetts. The Walk
is 6.2 miles and the 5K Run is a competitive, timed event fully
sanctioned by the USA Track & Field Association. AIDS Action expects
to raise approximately $1 million from the event. We talked to Liz
about her inspiration for this event and her spin on our LGBT issues.
When asked what she would like to see happen for LGBT equality in the
next few years Page stated, “I’d love to see any federal barriers
dropped as far as complete equal rights for equal marriage so my wife
and I can feel fully protected under the law as far as our estate and
any financial protections that we might be being denied right now. I
hope all of that for the sake of our daughter will be completely ironed
out and we’re always trying to fight discrimination. I am excited about
all the transgender focus right now because I think there are so many
people who are just starting to realize the pain they have lived
through. I myself have a first cousin who several years ago at 57 years
old said to his wife, 'I need to tell you either I’m going to make a
transition to be a woman as I’ve always felt in my heart or I’m going to
kill myself and you need to help me make this decision because I cannot
live like this any longer.' So right now I’m a big proponent of fair
protection for transgender people.”
Liz Page is a Certified Fund Raising Executive and in 1994 she opened
Liz Page Associates a fundraising and special event production company.
Under her leadership, LPA has built a reputation for producing special
events for nonprofits and corporations that not only meet but exceed
significant financial, marketing and employee engagement goals. Liz and
her team create signature experiences with unforgettable power and style
to help organizations reach their next level of success and visibility.
The AIDS Walk & 5K Run will begin and end at Boston Common on June
7th 2015. Registration and check-in begins at 7:30A. After opening
ceremonies at 9A the 5K Run begins at 9:50A and the Walk sets off at
10A. WCVB-TV’s openly gay newscaster Randy Price will emcee the event
which also includes a Wellness Festival and a post-walk celebration of
healthy living. There isn’t a registration fee or a minimum fundraising
requirement to participate in the Walk, however there is a $30
registration fee for the 5K Run.
For More Info: action.aac.org
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Thursday May 14, 2015
Thursday May 14, 2015
Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™ talks with 19 celebrities on the Red Carpet at the 26th
GLAAD Media Awards in NYC. First we spoke with Steven Petrow an
award-winning journalist, author and host of "Modern Manners Expert" for
Hilton Worldwide which is a fierce sponsor for the GLAAD Media Awards
and our LGBT community. Next we talked to ESPN’s Christina Kahrl who’s
also a GLAAD Board Member. Kahrl who is currently writing and editing
for ESPN talked about the importance of trans issues and supporting LGBT
athletes especially for our younger generation. Then we talked with
Police Chief Crystal Moore who was unfairly fired by the Mayor of Latta,
South Carolina. Moore accepted the GLAAD Award for Outstanding TV
Journalism Segment: "Fired for Being Gay?" MSNBC Live (MSNBC) with
MSNBC reporter Craig Melvin. She attended with her partner Kristi Isgett
on her left in our photo. We were then joined by Jenny Boylan, Co-Chair
GLAAD Board of Directors whose autobiography “She's Not There: A Life
in Two Genders” was the first book by an openly transgender American to
become a bestseller.
Then country music singer Ty Herndon who performed at the Awards talked about coming out last year and being embraced by his fans. He also discussed GLAAD’s Nashville: The Concert for Love and Acceptance happening Friday, June 12th in Nashville which he will headline. Television personality Ross Matthews who hosted the GLAAD Awards stopped by to talk about the importance of taking a moment to celebrate our LGBT advancements. Then actress and LGBT ally Lynda Carter who was there to present Thomas Roberts with the Vito Russo Award talked about how honored she was to do so as well as give us her spin on LGBT equality. We concluded our Red Carpet coverage with fierce LGBT allies actors Judith Light and Jeffrey Tambor from the hit Amazon series “Transparent” who both talked about the importance of using their celebrity to make change for LGBT and gender equality stating, “What is most important is that lives are being saved.” Kelly Ripa was also honored with GLAAD's Excellence in Media Award. (Photos by Marilyn Rosen)
For More Info: GLAAD.org
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Thursday May 07, 2015
Thursday May 07, 2015
Rabbi Jack Moline, Executive Director of
Interfaith Alliance talks about
an inspirational campaign recently launched by Interfaith Alliance
called the “Everyone Only” project with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™. The concept is to place “We Serve
Everyone Only” signs in businesses across the country to demonstrate
that no matter what legal rights we may have these businesses will
remain open to all. The signs have already been displayed in stores from
Oklahoma to Washington, D.C. and will shortly be sent to more than
20,000 supporters across the country. Recently Mitchell Gold + Bob
Williams became the first national chain to hang these signs in more
than 30 stores across the country. Mitchell Gold stated, “I grew up in
the 1960’s and remember all too well the signs that said ‘we serve
whites only’ and the other visible signs of discrimination against
African-Americans, minority religious groups and more. This sign is a
signal to our customers and employees that we embrace serving everyone.
If a gay or straight couple, or individual, walks in our store to make
their house a home, we stand ready to serve them…equally!” We talked to
Rabbi Moline about what he hopes to accomplish with the “Everyone Only”
project and his spin on out LGBT issues.
When asked what his personal commitment is to LGBT civil rights Rabbi
Moline stated, “I am a deep believer in the inalienable rights in the
Declaration of Independence: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
but I’m 62 years old and I was not raised in an enlightened era when it
came to LGBT issues. My family was a loving family and I thought
relatively unprejudiced but I know what my attitudes were coming out of
that family and it really took my kids who are now in their twenties and
thirties to open my eyes to intellectually what I knew, but in my heart
I don’t think it had penetrated yet. Once I thought it through and came
to understand the organic nature of sexual orientation and gender
identity I realized that these civil rights and the equality of all
people are not different for civil rights of Jews or Blacks or Latinos
or any other group and when rights are denied to a class of people in
society it makes for a mandate to focus on especially rectifying that
discrimination. So with that long explanation if I had to put myself on a
scale of one to ten I probably started out somewhere around six or
seven but I’m a solid ten by now.”
Rabbi Jack Moline has advised and written for many public figures
including President Bill Clinton for whom he provided advice on
international affairs as well as the
President’s personal challenges. He was also invited to offer a blessing
to the Obama and Biden families before the 2013 presidential
inauguration. Besides being Executive Director of Interfaith Alliance
he’s the Rabbi Emeritus of Agudas Achim Congregation in Alexandria,
Virginia and serves as an adjunct faculty member of the Jewish
Theological Seminary and Virginia Theological Seminary.
Rabbi Moline lives in Alexandria, VA with his wife Ann of 37 years and
is the father of three grown children.
For More Info & Download Sign: everyone-only.org
Thursday Apr 30, 2015
Thursday Apr 30, 2015
Serafina Palandech, Co-Founder of Hip Chick
Farms a California based LGBT owned organic, frozen poultry product
company talks to Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. Hip Chick Farms
was recently featured on the Food Network's "Food Fortunes" where they
joined food savvy entrepreneurs from across the nation to seek startup
funding. The startup company was founded by Serafina Palandech and her
wife Jennifer Johnson a former sous chef at Chez Panisse under Alice
Waters who was credited with starting the global sustainable foods
movement. For the last 14 years Jen has served as the Executive Chef for
Ann and Gordon Getty in San Francisco. Hip Chick Farms makes healthy
gourmet, artisan frozen products that provide time-crunched families
delicious and easy food solutions. At present they have four free-range
chicken products including gluten-free chicken nuggets, chicken
meatballs, gluten-free chicken wings and organic chicken fingers. They
recently developed a partnership with Whole Foods and will be expanding
their product line as well as increasing availability in other
supermarket venues nationwide. We talked to Serafina about she would
like to accomplish with Hip Chicks Farms and her spin on our LGBT
issues.
Now that marriage equality is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court we
asked what she would like to see happen for LGBT equality in the next
few years. Palandech stated, “Jen and I spoke about this at length and we
both share that marriage equality is incredibly important and that we’re
happy to see it progressing the way that it is but we also believe that
trans issues and equal equality for trans folk are incredibly important
within the LGBTQ community. We need to shift our focus there and more
of our energy to ensuring access to education, access to jobs, safety
and equality under the law for trans people. Secondly, I would say that
women’s equality within the LGBTQ movement sometimes does not get as
promoted. So equality, equal pay for women is a very important issue to
us as well.”
Serafina Palandech graduated University of California, Santa Cruz with a
BA in Women’s Studies and Art. She’s a veteran nonprofit executive,
project manager, strategic planner and event organizer who before
co-founding Hip Chick Farms spent more than fifteen years helping
nonprofit organizations access private funding streams through event
production and corporate/donor relationships. In her role as Event
Director for MZA Events, Inc., she oversaw the planning and execution of
AIDS Walk San Francisco, a 1.5 million dollar campaign that raised more
than 3.7 million dollars per year with some 25,000 registrants and
400,000 individual donors. Just prior to launching Hip Chicks, Jen
founded and ran Tugboat Events, a boutique event production company
which produced charity events for organizations in the Bay Area.
Serafina, Jen and daughter Ruby Rose live on their farm the Ramblin’
Rose in Sebastopol, California. They believe in the value of family and
together building a business that helps their local economy, farmers and
suppliers.
For More Info: hipchickfarms.com
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Monday Apr 20, 2015
Monday Apr 20, 2015
Chef Daisy Martinez, chef, television
personality, author and spokesperson for Dining Out For Life the
HIV/AIDS fundraiser talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. Dining Out For Life hosted by Subaru® will take
place Thursday April 30th in 60 cities across North America. The event
was conceived 25 years ago in Philadelphia and the concept is quite
simple. More than 3,000 participating restaurants donate a generous
percentage of that day’s proceeds to support service providers in their
region to fund care, prevention, education, testing, counseling and
other essential HIV/AIDS services. An estimated $4 million will be
raised in just one day of dining. Last year Dining Out For Life assisted
over 350,000 people, delivered over 1.8 million meals and provided
housing for 8,097 clients. It also fulfilled vital health services with
5,572 patients receiving health insurance, 5,491 receiving pharmacy
assistance and 1,948 were provided with dental aid. We talked to Daisy
about being a spokesperson for this fabulous event and her spin on our
LGBT issues.
When asked what her personal commitment is to LGBT civil rights Martinez
stated, “I was a child of the seventies so I lived through losing too
many friends to the AIDS scourge. In addition I have various family
members that are gay that I support 120%. It’s really funny because in
my circles I’m know as ‘The Lady of The Gay’ because most of my friends
are gay, I think I have one token straight friend. The LGBT community
has been very supportive to the Daisy brand. They come to my classes;
they buy my books; they show up for book signings. I get tons of fan
mail from them. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t like to
differentiate. I don’t like to say LGBT because they’re my friends and I
don’t make that distinction. They’re my friends and that’s it.”
Daisy Martinez attended the French Culinary Institute in New York to
study Culinary Arts where she received first prize for her final project
“The Passionate Palate”. Upon graduation, Daisy worked as a
prep-kitchen chef on the set of PBS’ Lidia’s Italian American Table for
her long time mentor chef and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich as well as a
private chef in New York City and as the owner of a small, boutique
catering business also called The Passionate Palate. In 2005 Daisy
launched her new career with “Daisy Cooks!” on PBS and her cookbook
“Daisy Cooks! Latin Flavors That Will Rock Your World” was an IACP
nominee and American category finalist, as well as the winner of the
Best Latino Cuisine Cookbook in the world by the Gourmand World Cookbook
Awards. As Daisy’s star ascended she met Rachael Ray at an event which
led Ray’s production company to produce "Viva Daisy!” which debuted on
the Food Network in January 2009. 2015 will mark Daisy’s fourth year as
spokesperson for Dining Out For Life. She’s joined by three other
celebrity spokespeople for this fabulous fundraiser including actor Pam
Grier (Foxy Brown, The L Word), designer Mondo Guerra, winner of Project
Runway All-Stars and Ted Allen host of the Food Network series
“Chopped”.
For More Info: diningoutforlife.com
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Monday Apr 13, 2015
Monday Apr 13, 2015
Celebrities on the Red Carpet at The Dinah
Palm Springs which recently celebrated its 25 anniversary talk with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. First we
talked to comedian Dana Goldberg who performed at “The Dinah Comedy
Night” hosted by Suzanne Westenhoefer with Gloria Bigelow and Dinah
Leffert. Dana expressed her concerns about Indiana’s Religious Freedom
Bill and gave us her spin on marriage equality headed to the U.S.
Supreme Court later this month. Then we chatted with actress and
producer Sarah Croce known for her sitcom “Unicorn Plan-It” about three
lesbian co-workers living in West Hollywood. This was Sarah’s third year
attending The Dinah. Next we talked to Michelle Bonilla who hosted a
take-off show of Fashion Police during the event. Michelle was one of
the first openly gay Latina actors in Hollywood when she appeared on
NBC’s ER as the sexy Latina paramedic "Harms". Then we chatted with the
cast of Showtime’s documentary “L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin”. While
at The Dinah cast members Brandiilyne Dear and her partner Susan Mangum
got married. We talked to them about that and their thoughts about LGBT
equality.
For More Info: thedinah.com
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Tuesday Apr 07, 2015
Tuesday Apr 07, 2015
Erica Kay-Webster, Founder of the Foundation
For International Justice talks about the epidemic of homeless LGBT youth in
this country with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. According to a study from the Williams Institute at UCLA
School of Law approximately 40 percent of homeless young adults in the
U.S. identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender with 46 percent
of these children committing suicide by the time they reach their 26th
birthday. On Friday April 17th at the Marriot Copley Place in Boston the
first annual gala will take place to benefit the Promise Place School
an initiative of the Foundation for International Justice. The Promise
Place School will include a residential educational complex for homeless
LGBTQ youth ages 12-24 in Massachusetts that will combine classroom
settings with a safe home environment. The school will be staffed by
qualified professionals, offering services including a safe and stable
home environment, a healthy diet, clothing, medical services, mental
health services, substance abuse education, recreational and physical
fitness programs and HIV/STD testing. All students will be offered
education from 6th grade and up including a GED program, guidance
counseling, life skills education and vocational skills training,
college prep classes, career counseling, full continuing education
scholarships and more. We talked to Erica about her inspiration for
Promise Place School and her spin on our LGBT issues.
When asked what her personal commitment is to LGBT civil rights
Kay-Webster stated,
“Foundation For International Justice mission is our commitment to
addressing human rights violations and rooting out discrimination
wherever it occurs through compassion and peaceful action that includes
advocacy, education and promoting social justice. Although I am a member
of the LGBT community I don’t believe that discrimination in any form
should exist and I truly believe in advocating for a human amendment to
the constitution to end discrimination on any level. Whether it’s the
LGBT community, whether it’s the Hispanic community, immigrants coming
into this country, women’s rights, it encompasses all of that and we
continue to work on that front to move towards
a greater future. When the Constitution was written it was written by
men for men primarily and it’s time to see a fully inclusive amendment
because we know that in the LGBT community equal rights have been moving
forward at such an incredible pace now that it’s not going to be very
long until we see full equal rights. The question becomes who’s the next
group that’s going to be picked on? Our mission is to make sure no one
ever has to go through those experiences again in this country and that
they’re fully protected under the law.”
Erica Kay-Webster knows homeless first hand after being cast out by her
family at age 15 because of her status as a transgender individual and
found herself on the streets of New York City enduring unspeakable
hardships and attempting suicide twice by the age of 17. Kay-Webster is
also a veteran of the Stonewall Inn riots in New York City in 1969 which
were the catalyst for the modern LGBT movement. Promise Place School’s
1st Annual Spring Gala on Friday, April 17th in Boston will be honoring
Congressman Joe Kennedy, Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, Diego Sanchez, Carl
Sciortino, Joe Finn and Elisabeth Jackson for their continued support of
the mission to help homeless LGBTQI youth.
For Info & Tix: promiseplaceschool.org
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Wednesday Mar 25, 2015
Wednesday Mar 25, 2015
George Brescia, style expert and author talks about
his award winning Stage17 reality series “Dress Up! with George B
Style” that just won the Best Reality Series Award at the 2015 Vancouver
Web Fest in Vancouver, Canada with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. Created by Jacob Pinion and Executive
Produced by Ondine Landa Abramson, “Dress Up! with George B. Style” goes
behind the scenes with Broadway’s finest, including Kate Baldwin,
Victoria Clark and Marin Mazzie for opening nights and red carpet
events. When it comes to dressing Broadway’s most radiant stars for
high-profile events, nobody makes them shine brighter than celebrity
stylist George Brescia. We talked to George about the second season of
“Dress Up! with George B Style” which airs on Stage17, his latest book
“Change Your Clothes, Change Your Life” and his spin on LGBT equality.
Brescia has been in a relationship for almost eighteen years and
believes in leading by example. When asked what would he would like to
see happen for LGBT equality in the next few years George stated, “I
think everyone should be able to marry who they want, live with who they
want, love who they want, be who they are, feel proud and be able to
have all the choices that everyone else has. I think it should be equal
for everyone and I think we’re here to support and love each other and
make the world the best that we possibly can. You know it might sound a
little corny but I do think that everything comes from love and I think
if you can treat every person you come in contact with as your best
friend, no matter what their views are, you’re going to see people sort
of come together and support each other and I think that’s really what
it’s all about. So I think that everybody should be able to love who
they want and be with who they want and I think that is very important.”
Style expert George Brescia has spent the last twenty-five years
working with top fashion and beauty leaders including Ralph Lauren,
Donna Karan and Tommy Hilfiger as well as fashion directors at
Bloomingdales, Bergdorf Goodman and Lord & Taylor. As the man behind
George B Style he’s also a top-tier NYC-based stylist and image
consultant with clients ranging from A-list celebrities to everyday men
and women looking to improve their appearance and gain confidence.
George has appeared as a resident fashion expert on NBC’s The Today
Show, CBS, ABC, Fox and NY 1 as the official red carpet fashion critic
for The Tony Awards. As an author, his personal lifestyle and fashion
book “Change Your Clothes, Change Your Life: Because You Can’t Go Naked”
(Simon & Schuster) debuted last summer. “Change your Clothes,
Change your Life” is a groundbreaking, direct and honest how-to book
that shows you how to transform yourself from the inside out. In
addition to his book, George pens a regular column for Playbill,
Resident and Venue Magazine. You can watch Brescia’s fabulous reality
series “Dress Up! with George B Style,” on Stage17.
For More Info: georgebstyle.com
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Wednesday Mar 18, 2015
Wednesday Mar 18, 2015
K.B. Draper about her new book “The U-haul
Diary” which is an extremely entertaining and relatable lesbian dating
memoir with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. The title comes from the old U-Haul lesbian joke that lesbians
tend to move in together on the second date. “The U-haul Diary” is a
comedic view of the women that Draper dated who moved in and out of her
life and her house. A woman’s name entitles each of the chapters from
the relationships she had with one serial lover thrown in that returned
causing more heartbreak and havoc in her life. This book isn’t an
inspiring tale of the triumphant power of love or another coming out
story but instead it’s an intelligent, honest and hilarious read about
the lesbian dating scene. K.B. claims that she discovered a talent for
storytelling at a Christmas Party when talking about her dating
experiences and one of her friends told her that she was so freaking
funny she should write a book. The idea stuck and she found that writing
was cheaper than therapy and continued telling stories in her stylized
rambling humor that resulted in “The U-haul Diary”. We talked to K.B.
about what she hopes to achieve with her memoir and her spin on our LGBT
issues.
When asked what her personal commitment is to LGBT civil rights Draper
stated, “I think it’s really important for all of us to be educated on
what is going on in the world. So I think if I educate myself and be
part of the community and be a positive part of the community I hope
that we will find some relief in the world. But for my personal
commitment it’s really to try and stay true to myself, who I am and that
happens to be a very happy, successful, passionate, lesbian and I think
if I can communicate that and let people see that, I hope that will
bridge some of the gaps that we may have out there. You know even for
people coming out or straight people, whatever the case may be, if I can
be just who I am and people can enjoy me and realize that it’s okay and
you can be happy and successful and be a lesbian all at the same time, I
think hopefully that is what I can personally do for people.”
K.B. Draper completed her degree in Criminal Justice Administration and
Business Management at Central Missouri State University where she also
played softball for four years. Directly out of college she went to work
for the local sheriff's department. During her tenure there she was
promoted to lead detective, working cases from theft, burglary, child
abuse, rape, suicide and homicide. Seeking a position to utilize not
only her criminal justice degree but her business education led K.B. to
Kansas City where she has been working in the private sector of law
enforcement/private security for over fifteen years. Currently she’s
completed her second book “Close-Up” that’s more of a modern day fantasy
series featuring two heroines Kanyon and Daylen, out to save the world
from supernatural bad guys.
For More Info: kbdraper.com
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