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    It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: Marching for Our Lives

    It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: Marching for Our Lives

    By John Lewis– When I learned about the upcoming “March for Our Lives” to end gun violence and shootings in schools, I reflected back on when gun violence first affected…

    The Power of Being Extraordinarily Ordinary

    The Power of Being Extraordinarily Ordinary

    By John Lewis– On my first day of law school 35 years ago, each member of my small group section of twenty students was asked as part of an ice-breaker…

    Time for ‘Me Too’ in Women’s Healthcare

    Time for ‘Me Too’ in Women’s Healthcare

    By John Lewis It’s Lunar New Year, and every year at this time our thoughts turn to our cousin Jackie, one of Stuart’s cousins on the Chinese side of the…

    What Is the Sound of Two Hands Clapping?

    What Is the Sound of Two Hands Clapping?

    By John Lewis– Perhaps the most famous Zen koan (a seemingly nonsensical or paradoxical question that Zen students are instructed to contemplate) is the koan: “What is the sound of…

    Major Advance for Marriage Equality and Gender Identity Rights in Latin America

    Major Advance for Marriage Equality and Gender Identity Rights in Latin America

    By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– Two weeks ago, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a path-breaking decision in favor of marriage equality and an individual’s right to self-determination…

    Will Chile Be the First Nation to Win Marriage Equality in 2018?

    Will Chile Be the First Nation to Win Marriage Equality in 2018?

    By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis As the new year begins, we look to Chile in hopes that the South American nation will become the first country to achieve marriage…

    Marriage Equality Triumphs Around the World

    Marriage Equality Triumphs Around the World

    By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– As we approach the end of the year, we are happy to report that 2017 brought major marriage equality victories in such diverse countries…

    International Activist Hiker Chiu Helps to Lead the Way on Intersex Social Justice

    International Activist Hiker Chiu Helps to Lead the Way on Intersex Social Justice

    By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– When Taiwanese and international intersex activist Hiker Chiu as a teenager saw their childhood medical records for the first time, one question kept resounding…

    A Look at LGBTQ Life in Taiwan

    A Look at LGBTQ Life in Taiwan

    By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– Taipei Pride It seems only fitting that San Francisco and Taipei, sister cities since the year of Stonewall, 1969, host the largest LGBTQ Pride…

    Taiwan Activists Say Now Is the Time to Fulfill the Promise of Marriage Equality

    Taiwan Activists Say Now Is the Time to Fulfill the Promise of Marriage Equality

    By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– This past October, we were thrilled to attend Taipei Pride, the largest annual gathering of LGBTQ people in Asia. We also then witnessed the…