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Raising LGBTQ Allies – an interview with Chris Tompkins

After Chris Tompkins had been out of the closet for almost 15 years—and dedicated his life to LGBTQ advocacy work—his 6-year-old nephew, David, asked if the woman next to him at a family function was his girlfriend. Chris wondered, how could he not know that I was gay? So, in 2015, he wrote his family a letter to address a conversation he realized they weren’t having. Raising LGBTQ Allies, by Chris Tompkins, started as this letter,  and that letter became an article first published on  ...

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