On a hot June day, TransPonder Programs Director Ben Lilley walks through the multiple offices the organization shares with other nonprofits at a former church in River Road. He enters a room towards the back of the building with racks and shelves full of clothes. This is the clothing closet managed by the Lavender Network, one of the other nonprofits in the building.

It was not a day for masks. It was a day to be one’s authentic self without fear of being judged, rejected or discriminated against.