Coupled with the fact that my hometown of Jackson, Tenn., has not had to deal with any of these censorship topics, I’ve been a concerned observer of the attacks and discriminations of personal lifestyle choices, but nothing more. We’ve seen that play out in school board meetings across the state in Tennessee when it comes to censorship of books and curriculum that includes same sex relationships or gender identity topics.Īs someone who has only been in monogamous, heterosexual relationship, the censorship of lifestyles and gender preferences has largely been a talking point for me. With any seismic shift in culture, though, there is always pushback from the opposite side. The strides that have been made over the last 25 years, and especially since 2015 with the advent of marriage equality, have been remarkable. Until recently, however, those relationships were not equally recognized from a legal perspective or carried the same weight of acceptance from a broad portion of society.
Since the beginning of time, relationships between humans have existed in many other forms and fashions other than monogamous, heterosexual affiliations.