Hikes was only two months into her new job, and her very first conversation with the city's LGBTQ community about inclusiveness in LGBTQ spaces was standing room only. 'Civil disobedience is in our blood,' she added. 'I am here for kicking down the door if the door needs to be kicked down.' PHILADELPHIA - 'When you've been shut down, you get loud,' Amber Hikes, executive director of Philadelphia's Office of LGBT Affairs, said to raucous applause at a crowded town hall meeting in the William Way LGBT Center in May.
