Kim Davis Is Not Practicing Civil Disobedience

Though people around the country are arguing that Kim Davis, the Kentucky law clerk recently jailed (and released) for refusing to issue same-sex marriages in Rowan County, is practicing civil disobedience, that term does not accurately describe what Davis has done....
Finding the First LGBT Art Museum

Finding the First LGBT Art Museum

My childhood was bifurcated. I lived in two worlds. One was home to my identity as an LGBT child. One was in the heteronormative world, where I had to learn to negotiate a world that didn’t value me as I was and ordered me to perform as a heterosexual. Luckily, I...
It’s Jail Time for Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis

It’s Jail Time for Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis

A Kentucky county clerk was jailed last week for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses and now her attorneys are asking that she be released from jail while her appeal is pending. Two gay couples and two straight couples have sued her and Davis still refused to...
Clerk Refuses to Issue All Marriage Licenses

Clerk Refuses to Issue All Marriage Licenses

The saga continues. Despite this summer’s Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 U.S. states, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis still refuses to issue marriage licenses in a religious protest of the Supreme Court’s ruling. As predicted by Florida...