According to Justice Kennedy, folks have two choices: Get married or sentence yourself to a lifetime of wretchedness. In American politics, the married heterosexual couple with children has been the gold standard of normalcy and virtue. They’re the people politicians address in their speeches, the ones they vow to fight for. If you exist outside […]
I hope that someday no children will have to grow up living in fear of the enormous love their hearts hold. Since becoming a parent, when anything big happens in the news—good or bad—I immediately think of how it will affect my kids. The news that the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage for all 50 […]
I keep my guard up, my mouth closed, because I won’t forget that it only takes one student, one parent, to take it all away. When I take the job teaching English at a small Connecticut boarding school, my parents ask when I’ll tell my colleagues I’m bisexual. I’m folding laundry in their house in […]
Is analyzing and fighting racism only the responsibility of those directly impacted and disadvantaged by it? I hope not. I’m sitting around a table at a bar with one man and three women—three of my lesbian friends. They’re discussing the need for more lesbian meeting spaces and hangouts in our city—maybe a lesbian café, arranging […]
