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He used to sneak to the back of the library to learn about who he was — now this trans advocate has his own book

Man in vest stands between two shelves of books, looking at camera
As a child, Charley Burton would read at the Gordon Avenue Library. “My heart would pound and I had sweaty hands just knowing I could slip away into all those words and find out about subjects that were taboo in my community. Even as I got older, it felt as if I was doing something wrong,” he writes.

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