“I realized at that point that, yep, this is who I am. “It was a really moving experience to me,” said LaValle. Her experiences at the Fantasia Fair, the longest-running transgender event in the world, were instrumental in her coming-out journey. For LaValle, that means embracing her trans identity. It’s the kind of life-changing revelation that can only happen in Provincetown, where tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ people flock every year to live their truths-and socialize amongst their own, free and without fear of judgment. She was attending her second Fantasia Fair, and for the first time, it clicked: She is a woman.
Dee Grace LaValle was so overcome with emotion, she sat down at the Pilgrim Monument and started to cry.