Apr 12, 2024
Brett Smiley is the married, gay mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, the first in the city's 400-year history. Elected to office in 2022 on his second try for the job, Smiley got his start in Rhode Island politics years before, serving as Chief Operating Officer for Providence and Director of Administration for the...
Mar 15, 2024
Rick Miller is a psychotherapist who works extensively with gay men. Gay himself, he has pioneered the use of mind-body experiential therapy to assist gay men, and other members of the LGBTQ+ community, in dealing with early life trauma.
Through doing such work, Rick has helped many in the community
discover inner...
Aug 18, 2023
Mara Betti is a successful, 50-something architect, working for one of the leading architectural firms in Boston.
She’s also a transwoman and biological father of two sons, ages 18
and 22.
In this deeply personal interview with PFLAG Cape Cod’s Rick
Koonce, Mara talks emotionally about coming out and...
Aug 4, 2023
Assigned female at birth, Jake Wanamaker is a 2023 graduate of Nauset High School on Cape Cod who today identifies as a Transman. For Jake, the awareness that he was born into a body of the wrong-gender for him came early, when he was only a few years old. But he didn’t have the knowledge or vocabulary with which...
Jun 30, 2023
Ann Burke is a registered nurse and long-time advocate for Transgender people who live on Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard.
She serves as a board member of the Cape and Islands Transgender
Resource Fund, and also acts as a counselor and facilitator of
Transgender social support meetings, held twice monthly on...