Have you driven north on Route 30 or east on Route 25 lately? No? Then you haven’t seen the “Take Back Vermont” signs that are still up, a year after Vermont passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage, and 10 years after the state created civil unions.

Those signs still proclaim that being gay is not OK. Can you imagine what it’s like to be a young, queer person riding a school bus past that message every day? A queer Vermonter commuting to work? A recently hitched same-sex couple heading to a country B&B on their honeymoon?... Read more