sentences:  She grew up in Sri Lanka.Flamer-Caldera describes in an interview with The Huffington Post that after coming out she moved from Sri Lanka to San Francisco at the age of 18 and that in 1978, she attended her first gay pride parade, in which Harvey Milk was one of the main figures.Flamer-Caldera says in the same interview that when she came back to Sri Lanka, she used many of the things she had learned in San Francisco including candlelight vigils and demonstrations and gay pride celebrations.