People You May Know: Claire & Anne

[Bill Floyd]

Their love is pretty much like your love, except when Claire came out she discovered that certain folks weren't as progressive as she might've previously imagined.

Anne will run the table on you at billiards, and she turns me on to bizarre comics.  Claire is smart enough to be intimidating, but cool enough to offset it.

The house they rented in Martha's Vineyard for their wedding weekend had a backyard that sloped down to the harbor, where ships of all shapes and sizes bobbed at anchor in the blue tides.  

The Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives admitted that the anti-gay-marriage amendment would be overturned within a generation, but the issue "motivates our base."

Their love is pretty much like your love, only braver.  

 

 

[Kaylynn Phillips-Temple]

Very good 6! Kudos to these 2 ladies, and to yourself. Being a gay woman who is very much in love for 4 years and married to the light and love of my life(we had a ceremony, but its not legal in Louisiana) this hits very close to home for me. Wish there were a lot more people in this world thinking like you and all these good folks who also commented.

[Jeanette Cheezum]

I remember when this could not have taken place. We are all God's children.

[Angela]

Faved.

[Teresa]

I am so thrilled that you're honoring these women.  Considering what's going on with healthcare and the Catholic church, I'm thinkin' more women will choose non-reproductive love....;-)  I swear.  What's going on with this world?  With our civil rights?  Sorry.  I've been reading articles that have my blood boiling.  Cheers to true love and the brave.

[Judy Thompson]

It's always been all right to be gay,  male or female, just as long as you didn't force people to think about it. In Victorian times women who lived alone or never married often took a companion for company, and what went on behind the doors was never acknowledged or discussed openly. As it was put, "once they had 'done their duty' and married, and raised children, then they were free to live their own lives."    

 

What brave women like Claire and Anne are doing is pushing back the curtain a little more,  not necessarily because it's easier for them, but because they have a right to do so now, and each push of that leaden curtain makes it easier for the next couple and the next.     The fact that there are states where they will not be allowed to live openly  as women who love each other is not their shame, but ours.

[Gita]

The cover of this week's New Yorker magazine has a painting of two brides in traditional white and veils.  It is a sly nod to the ubiquitous June bride magazine cover while acknowledging that New York State law allows two women to wed. How can anyone not be happy for people who find a true love and begin their lives together? By giving them names and personalities, you concretized a social issue that, in the abstract, has so many people twisted in knots.

[Bill Floyd]