The first time I was called "greedy" it was by a drag queen at the Michigan Pride Festival. She wasn't talking to me directly. She was calling out audience members in the unapologetic, hilarious, and crass way only a drag queen can, asking one attendee if she was a lesbian....

Oh, what a year it has been. I think we all expected life to get harder when the state turned bright red as a result of the 2010 election. We expected difficult and slow, if any, progress to be made for equality in Michigan. Few of us expected the "Whoa,...