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Zacharia "Zach" Wahls (born July 15, 1991) is the son of two lesbians and an activist on behalf of LGBT equality. ==Early years== Zach Wahls was conceived using artificial insemination and was born on July 15, 1991, to his biological mother Terry Wahls, an internal medicine physician.〔〔 He has a younger sister who shares the same sperm donor and parents.〔''New York Daily News'': (Lindsay Goldwert, "Mamas' boy: Lesbian couple's son speech goes viral," December 1, 2011 ), accessed June 1, 2012〕 Terry met Jackie Reger in 1995 and the two held a commitment ceremony in 1996. The family lived in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and moved when he was nine years old to Iowa City, Iowa.〔''Time Out Chicago'': (Jason A. Heidemann, "Zach Wahls," April 20, 2011 ), accessed June 1, 2012〕 He was raised as a Unitarian Universalist and identifies himself as a member of that church.〔UU World: (Zach Wahls, "How my testimony went viral," Winter 2011 ), accessed May 30, 2012〕 He has said that having lesbian parents caused occasional problems during his school years when he found it difficult to explain to his peers or found that some of them were forbidden to socialize with him.〔 He was sometimes teased and sometimes bullied because of his parents' relationship.〔''Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier'': (Terri Schlichenmeyer, "Iowa author of 'My Two Moms' shows love is love," June 4, 2012 ), accessed June 4, 2012〕 In 2004, as an eighth grader, he first realized that there was political opposition to the sort of family in which he was raised while watching the Republican National Convention on television.〔CNN: (Piers Morgan Tonight: Defending Gay Marriage," April 26, 2012 ), accessed June 2, 2012〕 In high school he wrote a series of columns for his high school newspaper about being raised by a lesbian couple.〔 He played quarterback on the football team and participated in speech and debate.〔''Des Moines Register'': (Reid Forgrave, "Gay marriage defense on YouTube disrupts 'boring' life," February 4, 2011 ), accessed June 2, 2012〕 He graduated from Iowa City West High School in 2009. He entered the University of Iowa that fall, majoring in civil and environmental engineering. While still a high school senior, following the Iowa Supreme Court decision in ''Varnum v. Brien'' that invalidated the state's ban on same-sex marriage, he wrote an op-ed piece in the ''Des Moines Register'' in which he advocated a complete separation of marriage from civil unions, calling for legislation "to completely remove government from the marriage process altogether, leaving a religious ceremony to religious institutions, and mak() civil unions, accessible by any two people, including those of the same sex, the norm for legal benefits."〔Iowa Politics: (Jason Clayworth, "Marriage testimony at Iowa Capitol making one teen a YouTube star," February 2, 2011 ), accessed June 1, 2012〕 His mothers, who had been together since 1995 and had a commitment ceremony in 1996,〔 married in 2009 following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Iowa.〔 In 2009, while a college freshman, Wahls started his own small business, Iowa City Learns, that offers tutoring services to junior and high school students.〔''The Gazette'': (Diane Heldt, "UI freshman creates peer tutoring company for high school students," October 13, 2009 ), accessed May 30, 2012〕〔Iowa City Learns: (History ), accessed May 30, 2012〕 He also studied for a time in India.〔 He was, in his own words, "not much of an activist" before he came to wide public attention in 2011, though he jokingly said he considered himself a "hipster Iowan" for supporting Barack Obama for president "before it was cool."〔''Washington Post'': (Melissa Bell, "Zach Wahls, Iowa student with two moms, discusses life post-viral success (Video)," December 1, 2011 ), accessed June 1, 2012〕 He also wrote a weekly column for the ''Daily Iowan'', a daily student newspaper.〔Campus Progress: (Jessica Mowles, "Six Questions with Zach Wahls, Who Defended His Moms in Iowa's Legislature," February 18, 2011 ), accessed June 2, 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zach Wahls」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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