Sublime

The governor, a Catholic, had been a Sunday morning greeter at St. Michael’s, her parish church in the Seattle suburb of Snohomish. After signing the bill, she was disinvited. She stopped going to St. Martin’s, the largest parish in the state, because she knew the priest would deny her communion.

“New York Court Defines Family to Include Homosexual Couples,” the stunned editors of the New York Times announced when the case was settled in 1989.

Her affection for her gay fans caused her to use her growing celebrity to advocate for equality issues. She has spoken at rallies in support of the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy barring gays from openly serving in the military. She supports marriage equality.

Though it is most popular in the United Kingdom, fat activism probably began in the United States, with the founding of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA)27 in 1969 and the development of the Fat Underground28 in the 1970s.

There were a few follow-up meetings—with the Federal Bureau of Prisons director, who promised to appoint a staff person to deal directly with homosexual complaints and to cease to call prison rape “homosexual,” when it was really an act of violence;

Major Margaret Witt, air force nurse and poster girl, discharged under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: the judge who ordered her reinstated declared, “There is no evidence that wounded troops care about the sexual orientation of the flight nurse or medical technicians tending to their wounds.”

We say that homosexuality is a perfectly natural state, a fact, a way of life, and that we enjoy our sexuality, without feelings of inferiority or guilt. We seek and find love, and approach love, as a feeling of loving mutuality.