Blade photos by Henry Lisner
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Most people say that investing in children is important for the future, but Archene Turner is doing more than just paying lip service to that ideal. Ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister on Dec. 9 of this year, Turner is currently developing plans for a school to serve Unitarian Universalist children. She hopes to open the school in five years. Turner was the only American-born child of her siblings, the remainder being born in Jamaica, and she was sent to boarding school in Great Britain. After returning to the United States for undergraduate work in chemical engineering at the University of Florida, Turner moved to Washington to accept a job as an examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1988, where she still works. She is single and lives in the District.
I have been out for 28 years and come out to new people when the time is appropriate. The hardest person was probably my boss because I feared losing my job.
If you mean gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, it would be Audre Lorde.
The past nightspot would be Tracks, and I do not do much clubbing now to know which is the best.
No. I believe the marriage law is archaic and needs to be changed to provide legal protection to people however they define their family. I know of grandmothers raising their grandchildren, seniors living together in a friendship. Should they not be protected?
Every issue is a gay issue, but it would have to be protecting, providing and nurturing our children — here and around the world.
It’s complicated, but I would have fought to get equality in jobs first before the school system. It never made any sense to me why we burdened our young people with desegregation and not the adults first, when the older people have more power. I think we would have gotten further with dismantling racism and sexism.
What came to mind immediately was the “wardrobe malfunction” at the Super Bowl halftime show. It raised many issues, including the sexual dysfunction in America.
I do not watch reality shows because I’m busy dealing with my own, but I guess “Survivor.”
Nothing.
“Happy to Be Me.”
Question the discovery and wonder why they spent their time on it instead of finding a cure for HIV, malaria, cancer, etc.
The interconnectedness of all beings.
Crab legs.
For something that we do not have the capacity to fix any other way.
All of them.
I recently saw “For the Bible Tells Me So,” and I was incredibly moved — love can overcome hate and fear.
That you are not supposed to talk about sex, politics and religion. When people exchange ideas about these three things, you get to know what is important to a person.
The Nobel Peace Prize.
Be yourself, be respectful and be safe…we need you!
I came to Washington for a job and I stay because if I can change human rights here, it will have a ripple effect all over the world.
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