“But thirty years after Loving v. Virginia, as a teenager in that school board office, I learned that gaining equality in the eyes of the law wasn’t the same as gaining the respect of your neighbors.” Matt Miklic comments on the step forward in issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the US state of Alabama.

At Raising My Rainbow, Lori Duron describes why her son is terrified of using the bathroom at school: “He has stopped drinking his juice boxes at lunch. He refuses to drink anything at breakfast…. He’ll do anything to avoid having strangers look at his private parts while taking bets as to what they’ll see when they get to see something.”

Lindsay Leigh Bentley on being a male-identifying little girl who didn’t transition: “They just let me be me…. They let me play with slingshots rather than princess wands. They didn’t conclude that I was gay, or transgender. They didn’t put me in a box that would shape my future, at the expense of my own free will.”

Daniel at Didwell on the eve of the SCOTUS announcement on the Defense of Marriage Act: “…these decisions have the power to impact how others are legally allowed to treat me, but they don’t auto-magically impact how people actually will treat me…or how I understand my own identity or relationships.”

“Dr. Norman wasn’t being funny; he simply had no protocol for lesbians.” At Goodnight Already, writer and teacher Jennifer Berney recounts a visit to the fertility clinic.