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Victoria Villalba, a 19-year-old transgender woman from Phoenix, sat on the back seat of a convertible scanning fellow participants of the L.A. Pride Parade: Boy Scouts, Episcopal priests, drag queens and leather enthusiasts.
“There are just no words to describe the honor of being part of this community,” she said, recounting years of hardship that preceded her trip to West Hollywood.
