Another Vow to Keep: Beyond Marriage Equality

By Siouxsie Q Wednesday, Jul 8, 2015

Long ago, at the tender age of 21, I was a bleeding-heart lesbian activist going to college and living in Oregon. I didn’t shave my armpits and I was engaged to the cheerleader of my dreams. We wore matching diamond rings we financed through Sears.

We didn’t belong together.

I was into bondage and discipline, she was into furniture sets and reproduction. Me not being able to marry her back then was probably the only good thing about Oregon’s ban on same-sex…