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21  |  OutBoise Magazine  | NEWS I wasn’t sure what to expect when sitting down for my first interview. In fact, I was terrified. Let alone, such an amazing person such as Rebecca Scott. I didn’t know much about Rebecca before I met her. In fact, I wasn’t sure she would actually come out. I originally reached out to her through Facebook to let her know about OutBoise Magazine. She was immediately thrilled to help out. Rebecca has been a part of the music scene in Boise and the Northwest for almost 20 years. She has been voted into the top 3 countless times over for Best Local Musician and was named Best Singer in the Best of Boise Reader’s Choice award by Boise Weekly. I didn’t quite grasp the amount of success this woman has accomplished when I met her. Even so, she was more OutBoise.com | Issue 1.2 | November 2014 interested in talking about our upcoming magazine. She was thrilled to be a part of the experience. Rebecca came to our fine city in 1992. When asked if she was “out” her reply was simple “I’ve never been in. I don’t necessarily wear it on my sleeve, though.” Despite my best efforts to stay on point, and ask the “right” questions, I found Rebecca had more questions for me. She wanted to know about OutBoise, where we were headed, and we discussed a lot about the LGBT Community, and Boise. She seemed to share my own personal opinions and said she believes Boise has come a long way in the past decade. “It’s definitely become more progressive,” she said. Rebecca has performed several times during Boise Pride, and has already part of your community since 1992 voiced her interest in performing for Pride again soon. Currently, she can typically be seen performing at such venues such as Sandbar, Boise’s Art in the Park, and the Hyde \