Logging Town Welcomes Transgender Group

Saturday May 17, 2008
By Marc Ramirez
Seattle Times Staff Reporter

[Webmistress' note: 2008 marked The Seattle Times' first visit to Esprit. The article and photographs were available on the AP wire and republished in several other papers.]

RAEANN HEWITT threw on a dress and drove 400 miles last weekend to Washington's Olympic Peninsula with an ear-to-ear smile, starting a journey toward the person she feels she was meant to be. Now, learning to negotiate the art of the high heel with several others outside a Red Lion Hotel, she knows her escape will soon be over.

That's because she is really a he, an internal conflict that ultimately tore Hewitt's marriage apart. [more...]