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Opinion The LGBTQ family is united by our fear for our lives

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November 21, 2022 at 3:04 p.m. EST
Britney Fick, 22, center from left, and Madi Grauer, both of Colorado Springs, hold candles during a vigil at Temple Beit Torah in Colorado Springs on Sunday. (Rachel Woolf for The Washington Post)
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Jennifer Finney Boylan is a professor of English at Barnard College of Columbia University and a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her most recent book is “Mad Honey,” co-written with Jodi Picoult.

“And what do we have here?” Dolly Parton asked me. “The typical American family?”