nawh-glosser

[nawh-glosser]

Kathy Reynolds and Dawn McKinley receiving their marriage license 12 years after challenging same sex marriage laws in the Cherokee Nation, 2016.

https://www.cherokeephoenix.org/news/same-sex-marriage-license-filed-after-12-year-legal-battle/article_c29abe26-8c92-5a0b-bfb1-3197cda16d0f.html

[nawh-glosser]

Heather Purser is a Native LGBT activist who pushed for marriage equality in the Suquamish tribe in March of 2011. The Suquamish Tribe was the second tribe to insitute marriage equality.

https://www.advocate.com/politics/2012/11/23/eight-lgbt-native-americans-you-should-know

[nawh-glosser]

Kitzen and Jeni Branting were the first gay couple to be married under the Coquille Indian Tribe’s passage of marriage equality back in 2009. The Coquille Tribe was the first Native American Nation to establish marriage equality.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2008/08/22/gay-marriage-oregon-tribe-says-yes

[nawh-glosser]

Paula Gunn Allen, Laguna Pueblo (2007) and Beth Brant, Mohawk (n.d.). Two Native American poets prolific in their queer indigenous storytelling.

Gunn Allen photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Gunn_Allen

Brant photo: https://lithub.com/how-beth-brant-uplifted-the-voices-of-native-american-queer-women/

[nawh-glosser]

Article on Gay American Indians in the Bay Area Reporter, from June 25th, 1992. It specifically references the significance in the tradition of queer indigeneity.

https://www.glbthistory.org/primary-source-set-native-american-voices-activism

[nawh-glosser]

Gay American Indian Contingent  at the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco. Photo by Elaine Gay Jarvis.

https://www.glbthistory.org/primary-source-set-native-american-voices-activism

[nawh-glosser]

A flyer from Gay American Indians (GAI) in its introductory year, circa 1975.

https://www.glbthistory.org/timeline