28th Anniversary
Today is the 28th anniversary of the day I met and fell in love with Kelley at the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. And the first anniversary of marriage equality.anniv
Read moreToday is the 28th anniversary of the day I met and fell in love with Kelley at the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. And the first anniversary of marriage equality.anniv
Read moreI have too many thoughts and feelings, coming too thick and fast, to write a thoughtful piece about the US Supreme Court’s opinion on same-sex marriage. So here’s an edited repost of something I wrote a couple of years ago about why it will change the world.
Read moreSo. The Supreme Court will hear four same-sex marriage appeal cases in (probably) April and issue their ruling in (most likely) late…
Read moreLast year, two and half months before the publication of Hild, I emailed my editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux: “I hope it’s…
Read moreFrom: Isabelle in the EU The reason I am getting in touch is that I have fallen in love with an American…
Read moreTomorrow the Supreme Court hears arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Proposition 8 case regarding the legality of same-sex marriage in California. On…
Read moreLast month I wrote: In all likelihood, the case SCOTUS will take up will either be the Prop 8 case, or that…
Read moreSame-sex marriages will begin in Washington State on December 9, 2012. So now there are nine states–Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New…
Read moreBallots are hitting mailboxes this week in Washington State. We have ours. (And when I say ‘we’ I’m speaking loosely: Kelley got…
Read moreMy immigration story was difficult, stressful, and expensive. Which is the understated English way of saying, Nightmarish, terrifying, and financially crippling. Kelley…
Read moreYesterday I read this article from The Advocate New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn filed a…
Read moreAs I’ve said previously, Referendum 74 made the ballot. But Initiative 1192–which could have proved confusing to those voting on same-sex marriage–has…
Read moreLast time I posted about marriage equality here in Washington, it was Valentine’s Day: Gov. Gregoire had just signed same-sex marriage into…
Read moreAs expected, the Washington House passed the same-sex marriage bill (55-43). The Governor will sign it. Then we wait and see. If…
Read moreYesterday, California’s Proposition 8 was ruled unconstitutional by a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote…
Read moreThis evening the Washington State Senate voted 28-21 for marriage equality. The House will most probably vote early next week. Most observers…
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