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Creative Director Keri Zierler joined KUOW's Pride-themed supper club with reservations but left with fresh perspectives and a new place to find a great tailored shirt. The question guiding Queeriosity Club was the same as for our larger Curiosity Club experiment: Can great food and compelling storytelling transform a group of strangers into a community?

But as I sat at the table, surrounded by a dozen wonderfully weird, diverse, and complex folks, I found my reservations quickly replaced by respect, gratitude and reflection. During dinner we were asked, among club things, to talk about our relationship with style and identity.

Mellina White Cusack, decked out in a crisp tailored blazer and shirt made custom by Indochino as I later learnedshared how her style has affected her relationship with her mother, and the way she uses fashion to garner respect in the world as a young-looking, queer woman of color.

But as I began to speak, I found deeper connections between my clothes and my identity than I expected. My car picture of myself as a child is from preschool. I was like a tiny Alex P. I was a tomboy, awkward, and nerdy. As I grew older, though, I found tribes and a partner who liked that I was a tomboy, understood and empathized with my awkwardness, and were just as nerdy as I was.

One of our Queeriosity Club homework assignments was to read an article about the November issue of Seattle Magazine seattle featured a dapper man on the cover with the following caption: This gay Peter Wichern. He is a local businessman. He is a homosexual. When I first saw the cover image of Peter Wichern, I thought the entire image was amazing—the gorgeous extended typeface of the masthead, the bright red sweater, the sharp-cornered briefcase…it was mid-century perfection, punctuated with his confident, yet coy expression.

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As I read the article however, I was surprised to learn that Wichern himself had absolutely hated the photo. As I looked around our Queeriosity Club table, it seemed to me that everyone had brought their authentic selves to the table, rabble rousers and all, and I was grateful to be there. Keri Zierler is an internationally awarded Creative Director and writer on the global advertising team at Amazon.

Find her on Instagram and Twitter kerizierler. June 7, Four-year-old style icon. Keri Zierler at years-old in a ghost-tied polo and rose-colored bifocals in Peter Wichern was one of the first gay men to come out so publicly in Seattle when he posed for Seattle magazine in November Editor's note: Keri is Kristin Leong's partner.

Kristin facilitates Curiosity Club. July 15, July 09, Get Local Stories Delivered to your inbox daily, weekly, or monthly. Explore Newsletters.