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!
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Syl
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!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
So I am guessing with her leaving Utah, the Lesbian population of the state is now zero???? 😛
jeffree
Can’t say that I blame her for wanting to leave Utah! Good luck in NC, Christine!
jeffree
Ooops, SC!
vivisima
I don’t know. Between South Carolina and Utah, I’d stay in Utah. But she knows what’s best for her…
Gay in SLC
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.
jeffree
I would feel much better about the orgs within Big Gay Inc. if one of them had the good sense to hire a person with her legislative background & strength of character.
@GAY IN SLC: Nicely put ! She’s brave to go to another conservative state.