My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Bio: Brigid Pasulka is an American author and winner of the 2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for her novel A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True, which she wrote after spending a year in Krakow, Poland.
