Queer Questions Straight Talk

Abby Dees is a civil rights attorney and has been actively involved in lesbian, gay and bisexual rights and awareness work for 25 years.  She has seen first hand that the best tools for understanding are courage, communication, patience and a good sense of humor — things that get drowned out too often by the loud squawk of politics.  Abby and her partner, Traci, are one of the 18,000 same-sex couples in California who married in 2008.   She is a Beatles fanatic, failed rock star, and travels every chance she gets. She lives in Los Angeles and Nashville.