Meet Sarah Goodfriend and Suzanne Bryant, the lesbian couple that just got married in Texas.
Trans women are targeted because we exist at vulnerable intersections of race, gender and class. My sisters are vulnerable because no one movement has ever centered the bodies, lives and experiences of these women, except for the severely underfunded, largely volunteer-staffed work of organizations run by and for our communities…
“We’ve been playing this subconscious game of cat and mouse for seven years. My sister went to her alma mater and actually my sister stayed at her old apartment. Literally, we’ve been a step behind each other for years. We met for the first time and I asked her a million and one questions.”
This is the love story that led to Alabama’s first gay marriage.
I haven’t felt safe in my own skin since [the attack]. I don’t know that I ever will again.
Kate Brown is about to become Oregon’s interim governor. In the process, she’s making queerstory as the first out bisexual governor in America ever.
The big message was just, from the smallest town to the biggest town, West Virginians believe in equality.
We need to start listening before we find out which trans woman of color is murdered next week.
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 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.
You couldn’t imagine two people who were better for each other. They were so close. When they walked into a room, it lit up.
Whatever our beliefs, whatever our traditions, we must seek to be instruments of peace, and bringing light where there is darkness, and sowing love where there is hatred.
This is not just a political issue. It is a biblical issue. And as a biblical issue — unless I get a new version of the scriptures, it’s really not my place to say, OK, I’m just going to evolve. It’s like asking someone who’s Jewish to start serving bacon-wrapped shrimp in their deli. We don’t want to do that — I mean, we’re not going to do that. Or like asking a Muslim to serve up something that is offensive to him, or to have dogs in his backyard.