This letter of mine was published in the Los Angeles Times Nov. 1999:
Pete Knight says he is not telling anyone how to live. I disagree. I am in a long-term (six years) relationship with another man. If Proposition 22 passes, I cannot even dream of getting married.
My partner is a Mexican citizen, living in Mexico, without significant savings in the bank, and certainly without a wife and children. Because of this, due to our xenophobic laws, he cannot even get a tourist visa to visit me in L.A., much less live with me. So we cannot even be domestic partners.
I do not understand Pete Knight's claim that my marriage would somehow harm his.
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The Times chose not to print my next-to-last sentence:
Because of attitudes like Pete Knight's, I sleep alone 50 weeks of the year.
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