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Nancy Pelosi on AIDS, trans rights, the legacy she resists claiming — and why Democrats must ‘win big’

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Tourists are already taking photographs outside Nancy Pelosi’s office when I arrive at the Longworth House Office Building at 10:30 on a Thursday morning with photographer Mike Nelson . Inside, a staff member conducting a Zoom job interview asks an applicant, “Why are you interested in working in this office specifically?” One possible answer hangs nearby. A framed display shows the men who had served as speaker of the House before Pelosi, their portraits arranged around the woman who broke the sequence. “Speaker Pelosi, Christopher Wiggins with The Advocate is here to see you,” communications director Ian Krager says as he invites us inside her spacious office with a view of the Capitol dome. Pelosi would speak with me for more than an hour, and would then keep talking through the photo session. She dislikes having her picture taken but had agreed to sit for a portrait. Before my first question, Pelosi describes the tributes accompanying her final year in Congress. That morning, she h