Carey Gibbons was on the front steps of Cleveland City Hall when the Supreme Court ruled that marriage equality was a constitutional right a decade ago.

She was also on those same steps after Tierramarie Lewis, a 36-year-old Black transgender woman, was killed in Cleveland in 2021.

Gibbons, who identifies as a nonbinary lesbian and uses she/they pronouns, is intimately familiar with the joys and struggles of living as a queer person in Cleveland.

"Cleveland is rich with resources and community," Gibbons said. "We have Colors+ counseling, a youth drop-in center, the LGBT Community Center, the Beyond Identities Community Center, Stonewall Sports, Studio West 117th, where you can play pickleball and attend a drag bingo and get a nice trivia night in. We are rich in ways that a Midwest town

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