Author Archives: Laura Maschal

Marriage equality comes home

I think I never really thought I’d get married till today.  Not legally; not without flying off to Iowa or Massachusetts or Canada and accepting that only a few family members could be with me.  Not without knowing that in the eyes of my state, my city, my country, and a goodly lot of my [...]

The power of pink, sparkly things

Yesterday, I gave Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James a big, gay Valentine.
It seems silly now, but I kept thinking he would try to talk me out of the idea that GAY IS OK, as our giant card read, and that I’d crumble under the pressure.  But once I got up to speak, it was easy.  [...]