A Mixed-Race Queer Couple Finds Acceptance in Richmond — ‘People Don’t Stare at Us’

Ashlyn Adams, 34, and Jenn Hooker, 31 — a couple who are African American and white, respectively — have forged a happily unorthodox life for themselves in Richmond after struggling to gain acceptance outside the Bay Area.

In her childhood, Adams says her family was “not well-off financially.” They moved around the East Bay, living in Oakland, Richmond, San Pablo and Berkeley. She has nine siblings, and all but one still live in the Bay. While she was in high school, her father died and her mother moved across the country. Read more at Richmond Pulse.