Clayton bursts with Pride over third annual parade, celebration 

When Queera Nightly, aka Sabine Martin, rides in on a float in Sunday’s Clayton Pride Parade, it will be a far cry from her early days growing up in Clayton in the early 2000s, when she was a he.

Growing up in a Mormon family, Martin did not receive support. Her parents insisted something was wrong with her. She was bullied for being effeminate, and while attending El Dorado Middle School in neighboring Concord, she was called the dreaded “F” word. She “came out” at age 12, a courageous move at a tenuous age for such a huge life event.