LGBTQ collection: 01_Rayne_Robin_transcend

Blake Alford,73, reminisces about his truck driving career at a truck stop south of Atlanta. He worked as a long-distance truck driver for more than 30 years as Rebecca Alford before transitioning to his more authentic male gender at 56. “I was just this lesbian trucker for years. I didn’t transition until my mother passed. I didn’t want her to be embarrassed that her daughter was really her son. But I think she would have liked me as Blake. I remember her telling me she just wanted to see me happy. And I’m finally happy in my own skin now. I’m at peace,” he said. Alford has since retired, but would get back behind the wheel “in a heartbeat, if I had that opportunity,” he said.

Blake Alford,73, reminisces about his truck driving career at a truck stop south of Atlanta. He worked as a long-distance truck driver for more than 30 years as Rebecca Alford before transitioning to his more authentic male gender at 56. “I was just this lesbian trucker for years. I didn’t transition until my mother passed. I didn’t want her to be embarrassed that her daughter was really her son. But I think she would have liked me as Blake. I remember her telling me she just wanted to see me happy. And I’m finally happy in my own skin now. I’m at peace,” he said. Alford has since retired, but would get back behind the wheel “in a heartbeat, if I had that opportunity,” he said.