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Title: Gay Atlanta 2028: Rising to our challenges
Post by: Shana A on May 30, 2008, 06:21:32 AM
Post by: Shana A on May 30, 2008, 06:21:32 AM
Gay Atlanta 2028: Rising to our challenges
Longtime leaders on the biggest changes of the last two decades and the issues that will shape our future
By MATT SCHAFER
MAY. 30, 2008
http://www.sovo.com/2008/5-30/news/localnews/8619.cfm (http://www.sovo.com/2008/5-30/news/localnews/8619.cfm)
Erin Swenson
The next 20 years:
"I think that will continue to be the biggest challenge over the next 20 years. I think the ultimately the rest of the country is going to be receptive to civil unions between two people of the same sex before this area is.
"The discussion I haven't seen that I would like to see happen is when we continue to have discussions about same-sex marriage, and opposite-sex marriage, we use terms that really don't translate to the transgender community. I think it's unfair to use terms of gender that are really more fluid than they are perceived. That is the conversation I would love to see happen, but that is probably just my own dream."
— Erin Swenson moved to Atlanta in 1957, where she graduated from Sandy Springs High School in 1965. She is the first transgender person known to keep her ordination as a Presbyterian minister when she transitioned in 1994-96. She continues to lobby on religious issues affecting LGBT people.
Longtime leaders on the biggest changes of the last two decades and the issues that will shape our future
By MATT SCHAFER
MAY. 30, 2008
http://www.sovo.com/2008/5-30/news/localnews/8619.cfm (http://www.sovo.com/2008/5-30/news/localnews/8619.cfm)
Erin Swenson
The next 20 years:
"I think that will continue to be the biggest challenge over the next 20 years. I think the ultimately the rest of the country is going to be receptive to civil unions between two people of the same sex before this area is.
"The discussion I haven't seen that I would like to see happen is when we continue to have discussions about same-sex marriage, and opposite-sex marriage, we use terms that really don't translate to the transgender community. I think it's unfair to use terms of gender that are really more fluid than they are perceived. That is the conversation I would love to see happen, but that is probably just my own dream."
— Erin Swenson moved to Atlanta in 1957, where she graduated from Sandy Springs High School in 1965. She is the first transgender person known to keep her ordination as a Presbyterian minister when she transitioned in 1994-96. She continues to lobby on religious issues affecting LGBT people.