Whistling in the Dark

In 2011 my then MTV colleague Christy Spitzer walked into my office, and happily pronounced  her lengthy, self-imposed dating sabbatical - one we had discussed at length over the course of the past year - was finally over.  And it was over because of Kassie Thornton - a sensational woman she had recently met through mutual friends. Though it was only a few weeks in, she had a hunch this was the real deal, that this one was somehow different from the rest. She was right. Not because she had never been with a woman before - no that was not the only life changing part of the story, not even close. No the real hum dinger was that shortly after that conversation, a random, fleeting moment in the back of a NYC cab would change the course of their lives. What happened next and what they did about it helped create case law so that others who find themselves the unfortunate target of discrimination, will now have legal precedent. They became a face for the LGBT community in Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign and t