Several years ago Dee Vieira, 60, who lived in Clayton the past 12 years, set about to change that by contacting city officials to request they fly the rainbow flag during June for Pride Month. "It feels good to be part of a wave of progress when, for a long time, it felt like the LGBTQ community was not visible in Clayton." "There is never going to be a first Pride parade in Clayton again," she noted. Martin said she was "overjoyed" and "so happy" at being invited to kick off her former hometown's inaugural Pride parade. "My boss, through the nonprofit, is helping me build the parade float. Afterward, I will be around to take pictures," said Martin.
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she wasn't planning to perform her own songs at the parade, Martin will be in full drag on a float with music. Martin helps to raise money for the nonprofit, which is serving as the fiscal sponsor for the Clayton Pride organizing committee. Her drag sister, Bella Aldama, who works for the LGBTQ center, invited her to participate in it. This Saturday, June 25, Martin will be back in Clayton to help kick off the city's inaugural Pride parade. She is also a singer, with her third album set for release this fall, and performs in drag as Queera Nightly, a riff on the name of English actress Keira Knightley. Now living in Oakland with her older sister, who is a lesbian, and her sister's girlfriend, Martin works as an executive secretary at a nonprofit. I didn't know about trans people until being a part of RCC and really through drag and being immersed in the queer community." "Through services like the RCC, I was able to find some support and representation in my community that I didn't have because I grew up so sheltered. "I would say I felt very isolated as a young queer person," recalled Martin, 24, who came out as transgender last year and recently started her social transition and began hormone therapy. Through it she found a job, resources, and met with a therapist for the first time who was not Mormon. Martin eventually connected with the Rainbow Community Center, the LGBTQ nonprofit service provider located in Concord. Former Clayton resident Sabine Martin, as her drag persona, Queera Nightly, will ride in the Clayton Pride parade.