Smaller CA cities raise the bar on celebrating Pride
ebar.comAfter Sabine Martin initially came out as gay at the age of 12, her Mormon parents pulled her out of her public school and decided to homeschool her.
The family also relocated from Concord, California to a trailer park in the Contra Costa County city of Clayton at the foot of Mt.
Diablo."I had some harassment at the time, but I also had people who had my back," Martin recalled in a recent interview with the Bay Area Reporter.
Martin eventually connected with the Rainbow Community Center, the LGBTQ nonprofit service provider located in Concord. Through it she found a job, resources, and met with a therapist for the first time who was not Mormon."I would say I felt very isolated as a young queer person," recalled Martin, 24, who came out as transgender last year and recently started her social transition and began hormone therapy. "Through services like the RCC, I was able to find some support and representation in my community that I didn't have because I grew up so sheltered.
