{"id":11654,"date":"2014-12-12T14:13:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T19:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/hrc-foundation-youth-ambassador-giovanni-blair-mackenzie\/"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T19:13:18","slug":"hrc-foundation-youth-ambassador-giovanni-blair-mackenzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/hrc-foundation-youth-ambassador-giovanni-blair-mackenzie\/","title":{"rendered":"HRC Foundation Youth Ambassador: Giovanni Blair MacKenzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>HRC Foundation Youth Ambassador: Giovanni Blair MacKenzie<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/\/files\/images\/blog\/GiovanniBlairMcKenzie_YouthAmbassador_blog263.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>                        Giovanni spent the first 16 years of his life in Jamaica, before making the major change to move to Portland where he was able to talk about his sexuality honestly for the first time.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/hrc-foundation-youth-ambassador-giovanni-blair-mackenzie?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/hrc-foundation-youth-ambassador-giovanni-blair-mackenzie?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRC Foundation Youth Ambassador: Giovanni Blair MacKenzie Giovanni spent the first 16 years of his life in Jamaica, before making the major change to move to Portland where he was able to talk about his sexuality honestly for the first time.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/hrc-foundation-youth-ambassador-giovanni-blair-mackenzie?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/hrc-foundation-youth-ambassador-giovanni-blair-mackenzie?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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