Notes
- For this article, we included only brief excerpts from a two-and-a-half hour telephone conversation. Jessi Gan transcribed the conversation; Pauline Park, Willy Wilkinson, and Jessi collaboratively edited it.
- As Karin Aguilar-San Juan has observed, “[A]ppealing to an authentic experience can make a misleading claim to truth.” In refusing representativeness, we offer two of a multiplicity of Asian American trans “truths” relating to same-sex marriage. See Aguilar-San Juan, “Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America,” David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, eds., Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), 31.
- After San Francisco city officials decided to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, longtime lesbian rights activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin became the first couple to wed, in a private ceremony on February 12, 2004 at 11:06 a.m.
- Willy and Georgia identify as a same sex/different gender, butch/femme couple.
- Willy Wilkinson, “Family Values: Lesbian Newlywed Breaks Barriers Just as Her Parents Did More Than 50 Years Ago,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 5, 2004. Chronicle editors wrote the headline of the article. Willy, who identifies as a third-gendered person and navigates between the lesbian and transgender communities, was disappointed by its use of the female pronoun.
- Transition refers to the process of changing gender/sex.
- In 2003, U.S. Representative Marilyn Musgrove of Colorado proposed a Constitutional amendment to define marriage as consisting “only of the union of a man and a woman.” On February 24, 2004, less than two weeks after San Francisco began its widely publicized weddings, President George W. Bush added his public support to Musgrove's efforts. In a speech, he called on Congress to “promptly pass, and to send to the states for ratification, an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of man and woman as husband and wife.”