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Interview with Barbara Satin

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Barbara Satin is trans woman from St Paul. She discusses growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, and her experience coming out later in life. She talks about the importance of visibility, and the difficulty of finding a trans community at a time when everyone had to be so secretive. She was president of the City of the Lakes Crossgender Community in the 1990s. She joined Spirit of the Lakes Church, now Living Table United Church of Christ, and then proceeded to hold multiple leadership positions in the UCC, including on the LGBT Coalition, and the Executive Council, and at the time of the interview was Deputy Faith Work Director for the National LGBTQ Task Force. She talks about her work starting GLBT Generations to address the issues older LGBT people face, and was instrumental in opening the Spirit on Lake apartment building in 2013, and Clare Housing. She believes in the importance of building bridges to LGB groups to become more inclusive of trans issues, and she started the first Trans Day of Remembrance in the Twin Cities.

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