The Real Reveal Interview: Sean Burgandy

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Meet Sean

Sean is one of my best friends, and I say that in the very beginning when I interviewed Doc - this is one of my best friends. You're going to discover that I'm somebody who has a lot of best friends. So it's true, I have a lot of people in my life, I'm a huge extrovert. According to the Myers-Briggs personalities thing I'm a 90% extrovert and my whole life I've had a lot of friends. And throughout my life there's people that at one time or another or some circumstances, we end up being best friends. As far as I'm concerned once I have a best friend, I have a best friend. So I have a lot of best friends. And so this next person, Sean Burgandy, I can't even remember how we met. I really don't remember. I was in Washington, D.C. I know that and I met Sean and Sean was the volunteer coordinator for an event then called the True Spirit event. That event was a conference for trans people, I met him in ‘99, so the conference was in fall of ‘99.  When I met him he was the volunteer coordinator and he recruited me to volunteer for the conference and also to help him coordinate volunteers. So long story short, Sean and I became fast friends working together on that and we've been friends ever since. He is one of my best friends and he's somebody that I can count on and know is going to be there for me. We're there for each other, we have been for like 20 years. 

I want to really acknowledge and appreciate, first of all, that my friends come on here and do this and they're out in a particular way on this show that maybe they're not out everywhere in the world. For Sean in particular, Sean is someone who for the most part in his world is what we call stealth, at least that's what we called it back in the day. So it's really important to understand that there are and I'm introducing you to these out trans and non-binary humans and all kinds of people in the way they identify that they're out and not everybody in the world is out. So it's important for you to know that you have trans people who are your kid’s teachers and your accountants and your male carriers and your every profession you can imagine. There are trans people out there serving you every day and working with you every day and you don't know. You don't know that they are trans, and when you see some of my friends as we go through this you're gonna understand you can't pick a trans person out in the crowd. Now a lot of people think that you can and that's very frustrating for me because it's not true. Simply you can't.

So my friend Sean is coming on to this interview and he's super generous to do this because he is out to his friends and the people who know him, but for the rest of the world he's not out. He's stealth and he has a career and a life where he's not out, so I really want to appreciate and acknowledge Sean for coming on and doing this interview with me first of all. Second of all, I just love this human and I hope that you love him as much as I do. Sean and I laugh a lot; Sean makes me laugh a lot. He's a funny person, he uses humor in all kinds of ways and so I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I enjoyed having it with him. Again, I hope you love Sean as much as I do and I think you'll learn a lot today. So welcome back to The Gender Reveal Party and I'd love to introduce to you my good friend Sean Burgandy.

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