![]() I would walk across hot coals for my family, a pint of Magnolias banana pudding and Hugh Jackman. What would you walk across hot coals for? ![]() Look to collaborate with others and take your leadership and efforts to the next level. Many times, something that we are thinking of doing has already been done, or is being done right now. I’ve seen many people go into this work, myself included, making their lives harder than it has to be. What’s your advice for LGBT movement leaders?ĭon’t reinvent the wheel. I believe there is something greater than us and this world we live in. What do you believe in beyond the physical world? If science discovered a way to change sexual orientation, what would you do?Ĭontinue to be the person I worked so hard to love unconditionally - a black gay man. If your life were a book, what would the title be? I was in London for the first time working on a project so I asked this of my Facebook friends: “For those of you who have been to London before where exactly is the gayborhood?” It was well worth asking. What was your last Facebook post or Tweet? What’s been the most memorable pop culture moment of your lifetime?ĭo what makes you happy. Slavery and all of the deaths that occurred/are still occurring because of the “color value system” we have been taught to embrace. What historical outcome would you change? What non-LGBT issue are you most passionate about? Marrying my best friend and love of my life, all my friends being there and my mother in attendance with love and support. Town nightclub (on a Friday) has yet to let me down. What’s Washington’s best nightspot, past or present? L: Pat Griffin, Sue Rankin and Helen Carroll G: LZ Granderson and Cyd Zeigler B: Anna Aagenes and Robin Ochs T: Laverne Cox and CeCe McDonald ![]() There are so many people in the LGBT community who have helped me get to where I am today, and are still doing so as I write down these answers. Oh yeah, and I recently came out as a gay man! I get to be who I choose to be and I love everything about that. I had these negative views of trans people and what I thought it meant and I hated that I fit under that “label.” Little did I know that being trans is simply customizing my identity to what I want it to be. Honestly I’d say coming out to myself was harder than coming out to anyone. When I was 18, I found out what being a trans man meant. I let someone else (who loved to spread other people’s business) tell her for me. The hardest person to tell was my best friend at the time. When I was 14, I came out to my friends as a gay female. However, I didn’t always have the vocabulary to describe myself. ![]() How long have you been out and who was the hardest person to tell? He enjoys writing, shopping for shoes, Netflix and traveling in his down time. He hopes to finish it with a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Thailand in December.Īllums is single - one of the downsides of constant travel, he says. He just got back from London and Scotland where he worked on a documentary about the experiences of trans people around the world. You shouldn’t have to tweak yourself to make somebody else happy.” He splits his time between New York and Washington when he’s not traveling (which he says was about 93 percent of the time in the last year). Allums says the issue of being male on a women’s team “didn’t bother me at all.”įIND MORE OF THE WASHINGTON BLADE SPORTS ISSUE HERE.Īfter graduating, Allums ( ) parlayed his career into trans advocacy work - mostly visiting college campuses where he spreads his belief that “I am enough - what I say, what I feel, that is enough. ![]()
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