Tag Archives: marriage equality

Committed to Home – with Pride

Posted on June 22, 2021 by Sheila Morris

“It’s rare to find a collection of essays so rich and compelling, its contributors sharing the journeys that frequently took them into regions unknown but eventually led them back home – to themselves, their loved ones, and their communities…” Robert … Continue reading →

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remembering Harvey Milk with Pride

Posted on June 9, 2021 by Sheila Morris

June is our official LGBTQ Pride Month, and I’m resurrecting this post from May, 2014 to honor a man whose life – and death –  continues to speak to us through his celebrated legacy. Lest we forget… Today, May 22, … Continue reading →

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Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home (Happy Pride!)

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Sheila Morris

In June, 2017 I shared my excitement about the upcoming publication of Southern Perspectives – the cover was all I had back then – but I could see the finish line of a very long journey. Two years later I am … Continue reading →

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wonder women – southern style (part II)

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Sheila Morris

A politician/philanthropist from Faith, North Carolina who settled in Charleston; an attorney who moved to Columbia from Key West, Florida; a midlands YWCA executive director from Detroit, Michigan — three women whose different, yet similar, stories were chronicled in Southern … Continue reading →

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peace be unto you, namaste, shalom, toodle do

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Sheila Morris

Truthfully, I have lost confidence in political surveys since the presidential election of 2016 here in the United States when almost no survey gave DT a snowball’s chance in hell of being elected. Hopelessly wrong, right? So let’s just say … Continue reading →

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Edie Windsor (June 20, 1929 – September 12, 2017)

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Sheila Morris

One of my favorite heroes was a woman named Edie Windsor who died yesterday at the age of 88. I never had an opportunity to meet her personally, but I know what my family and my community owe her. She … Continue reading →

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Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Sheila Morris

Coming this December – a Must Read! Read the intimate personal essays of 21 native or adopted South Carolinians who contributed significantly to the organizing of the queer community in our state from the AIDS crisis in 1984 to marriage … Continue reading →

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Road to Equality – Revisiting the Obama Presidency

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Sheila Morris

President Barack Obama was the first American President I ever heard who openly supported marriage equality for LGBT citizens. My emotions were a mixture of joy and amazement the first time I heard him say the words. I felt an … Continue reading →

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…And Your So-Called Social Security…

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Sheila Morris

One of my favorite country singers and songwriters, Merle Haggard, wrote one of my favorite songs, Big City with lyrics that are much more meaningful to me in 2015 than they were in 1981 when I first heard them.     … Continue reading →

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The M Dot

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Sheila Morris

  3. Bertha Emiline Selma Buls (08/02/1873 – 01/01/1956) m. Charles C. (Karl) Schlinke (01/09/1870 – 03/14/1953) …..3.5 Bernice Louise Schlinke (10/20/1898 – 04/19/1972) m. James Marion Boring (03/06/1887 – 09/20/1938) …..3.5.4 Selma Louise Boring (03/25/1927 – 04/25/2012) m. Glenn … Continue reading →

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