Utah’s Lesbian Rep. Christine Johnson Is Done With Lawmaking + Baby Making. Now, Equality
Certainly the Utah State House is going to miss Democratic Rep. Christine Johnson, the lesbian official who once snuck a gay poem onto the House floor, as she decamps to head up South Carolina’s leading LGBT equality group.
You’ll remember Johnson for carrying a child for two anonymous gay men. She gave birth this month! It’s a boy! And it’s biologically hers, although appropriately she’s maintaining only a “aunt-like relationship” with the child. (Johnson has an 18-year-old college-bound daughter of her own.)
So with that out of the way, Johnson is leaving Utah after serving four years as a legislator, where she pushed for the regular queer things, like anti-discrimination measures. (They never took.) She’s headed for South Carolina, where she’ll take the post of executive director of South Carolina Equality on July 1.
G’luck, lady!
Johnson worked hard, unlike some other gay politicians in the legislature. She showed us how to live happily and honestly as a lesbian and I will miss her bravery.
Though South Carolina is also conservative we need leaders to step into those climates and rattle the cages of the conservatives. I SC appreciates what they are getting and treats her well.
Best of luck, Chris. We’ll miss you in Utah.
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Johnson was a rare gem of a politician: one with guts and character. I can’t imagine what i must have been like, being a queer Republican politician in Utah of all places!