Eve Tushnet is not your father’s and mother’s lesbian. She grew up Reform Jewish and secular, depending on the parent, the child of a Harvard law prof and prison-industrial-issues lawyer, is a Yale alum who found God there in a debating society, converting to Catholic.
Now, at age 32, Tushnet is a unique voice in the discussion of religion and homosexuality. She very openly embraces her sexual orientation but is celibate and advocates against same sex marriage. She is the darling of numerous church conservatives but is also a great admirer of radical pacifist and Catholic Worker Movement founder Dorothy Day.
Ultimately, however — as our discussion below indicates — simple labels and categories are unhelpful with regard to Tushnet , whose greatest commitment appears to be to an “ethos to pursue truth wherever it takes you, and then live up to that no matter what it costs.”
Sounds like newly Blessed John Henry Newman to me, the pursuing truth no matter what. Busted Halo does the interviewing.
Blithe Spirit 
“[The open lesbian] is the darling of numerous church conservatives.”
Ah, yes, those wild-eyed, reactionary, “church conservatives.”
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