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Mary Gay Scanlon: This is a personal issue for me. It gets personal when someone who you love says, 'This is who I am.'

On the recordApril 1, 2019
This is a personal issue for me. It gets personal when someone who you love says, 'This is who I am.'
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Mary Gay Scanlon
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Scanlon shares her personal connection to LGBTQ issues through her sister.

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