Taking a Moral Stance on ENDA

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Taking a Moral Stance on ENDA

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid49546.asp 🔗
By Riki Wilchins
10/03/2007

"Back then, although most people saw me as an exceptionally effeminate gay man, I was largely accepted. Yet when I transitioned, my (female) lover and I were asked to leave lesbian meetings. I was publicly disinvited to women's events. I was twice thrown out of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. A National Organization for Women chapter told me I was welcome to join as a man.  Even by 1995, when 40 of us showed up at a Falls City, Neb., courthouse after the murder of Brandon Teena, many gay newspapers ignored us, not considering Teena's murder "gay news."