In 2017, Danica Rome made history as the first out trans person elected to a state legislature in the United States.

And now she has done something even more radical as a politician by writing a memoir that is not...

How should I put this? A memoir that isn't boring. I mean that honestly,

most books by politicians, especially those who write them while in office, they're usually

just slogs, overwhelmingly profoundly boring. But for Danica, this is a woman who, from the

very beginning, she wasn't trying to hide things

from her past or present a false image of herself to the public.

I guess that's what happens when you're the former frontwoman of a thrash metal band who's

famous for their partying in songs like Drunk on Arrival.

Danica has always just laid it out there, and that authenticity is on full

display in her new memoir, Burn the Page. It is a record of her most intimate, hilarious,

sometimes beer-soaked moments, all which led to her history-making career in the Virginia

House of Delegates. So from The Advocate magazine in partnership with Glad, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is

LGBTQ and A with Danica Rohn.

In 2016, before you ran for office, you started driving to the Capitol to advocate against anti-LGB

legislation that was being proposed.

And you write in the book that this was your first time crossing over from being a journalist

to an activist.

I wanted to talk about why that specific moment was for you, that sparked you,

because anti-LGB bills were not new. So, like, why these specific ones then? Well, the most

important part of this is I had left my job after nine years, two months, and two weeks, as the

lead reporter of the Gainesville Times and the Prince William Times, because the next general assembly session was in 2016, I had started work as the

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