Fritzie Estimond is out and proud. 

“I live as a proud lesbian Black woman every day,” she said.

Estimond, 38, is the Event Coordinator at the Key West Business Guild as well as the Box Office Manager at the Waterfront Playhouse.

“I also serve on boards that directly or indirectly impacts the LGBTQ+ community,” she said.

Those include Queer Keys Board of Directors, an LGBTQ community organization that supports, educates, empowers, and celebrates the queer community in the Keys; and Friends of the AIDS Memorial, a memorial donated to the City of Key West in 1997 – the first municipal AIDS memorial in the world.

“Last year I started this journey of self-discovery, doing the things that scare me,” she said. “That has opened doors to so many opportunities and new discoveries for me.”

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