Bridget Ziegler’s gay colleague isn’t afraid of her. He uses her hate as fuel to make change.

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Bridget Ziegler’s gay colleague isn’t afraid of her. He uses her hate as fuel to make change.

Tom Edwards, a New York transplant who’s been utilizing his organizational skills since volunteering with the Gay Men’s Health Crisis fresh out of college, arrived in Florida a few years ago with his husband and settled in a modest house in Venice, close to canals where the 62-year-old rower regularly skims 50,000 meters a week. Edwards describes Sarasota County politics as purple, but you’d never know it based on the proceedings at the Sarasota…