“When I’m worrying about how to teach without coming off as a bitch because I expect students to be quiet when I’m talking, I’m not thinking as much as I should be about whether my students are rea…
Don’t ask me, I wanted to say. You’re a tall, burly man with a deep voice and degrees more prestigious than mine. You’re like Dorothy in teaching Oz — you can go home anytime you want, all you need to do is click those particular ruby slippers three times.
I knew it was hard to come out. I think my life was just set that way because I lived in the fashion world and I was very much on my own and when I had my relationship with Sandra, communication wasn’t like it is nowadays — so it was almost like my family and country were there and my other life was here and they just didn’t cross. It became hard once I really was sure I was gay and I wanted to live my life openly and as the years went by, well I had to be honest to my family and to the people around me and I did — I was — for many years.
I know everyone’s feelings are valid and important, but actually Josh’s feelings are just not valid or important, they are dumb. If I have to spend one more minute of my life thinking about Josh’s feelings I’m gonna climb into a rocket ship and set that rocket ship on a course to the moon and then once I get to the moon live inside a system of underground caves so I don’t even have to see earth from afar because I know that Josh and his feelings live there.
It’s time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution, same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.
I don’t feel shame anymore. I think the book was definitely the last bit of release, in a way, that I had to do in order to feel really proud of who I am. I think the transformation started way before. I don’t feel shame about anything in my life now.
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I have great respect for the legal process, and the protections that the law provides for our people. I am disappointed that a single Federal court judge disregarded the vote of the Alabama people to define marriage as between a man and woman.
Alabama’s Governor and Chief Justice don’t seem to think federal courts have the power to make gay marriage a thing in their state - and they might be right.