30 years ago: a love story in photos
Thirty years ago today Kelley and I met in East Lansing, Michigan. Here’s our story in photos.
Read moreThirty years ago today Kelley and I met in East Lansing, Michigan. Here’s our story in photos.
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 moreMy hope is still for Yes, that Kennedy will listen to his conscience. But at the very far reaches of the hope universe there’s a tenuous hint of a wisp of possibility that Roberts and Scalia might say Yes, too…
Read moreI’ve been reading analysis for a while on how the Supreme Court might rule on same-sex marriage. The consensus boils down to…
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 moreAt some point next week the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will hand down its decisions on the Defence of…
Read moreFrom: Jack HastingsI am curious. Are you and Kelley Eskridge the first same sex couple co-Guests of Honor at a major science…
Read moreI just watched this video, the stories of LGBT seniors’ lives : Most people who meet me think I’m lucky to have…
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 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 moreI keep meaning to mention these things as I stumble across them, but then, well, life happens and they fall off my…
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 moreThe money quote is at the end: “I’ve just concluded that, for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead…
Read moreGovernor Chris Gregoire signed the Washing marriage equality bill into law today. At some point this year, for same-sex couples it will…
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…
Read moreLast night, the Washington state House Judiciary Committee passed by a vote of 7-6 the bill to extend the freedom to marry…
Read moreAbout an hour from now, the Washington State legislature will open hearings on two identical same-sex marriage bills, HB 2516 and SB…
Read moreNo, not me–at least not yet–but a song from the always-fab Janis Ian. I’ve said it before, ad tedium ad nauseum, that…
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