Editing Alison Bechdel (section)

== Personal life ==
Bechdel [[coming out|came out]] as a lesbian at age 19.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genderacrossborders.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/a-conversation-with-alison-bechdel/|title=A Conversation with Alison Bechdel|last=Samer|first=Roxane|date=February 23, 2010|website=Genderacrossborders.wordpress.com|access-date=November 22, 2017}}</ref> Her sexuality and gender non-conformity are a large part of the core message of her work, and she has said that "the secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Joost|first1=Wesley|title=Sing Lesbian Cat, Fly Lesbian Seagull: An Interview With Alison Bechdel|url=http://www.theguardsman.com/051500/page10.pdf|page=10|work=[[City College of San Francisco|The Guardsman]]|date=May 15, 2000|access-date=September 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117063225/http://theguardsman.com/051500/page10.pdf|archive-date=November 17, 2015}} (pg. 11 missing)</ref> In February 2004, Bechdel married Amy Rubin, her girlfriend since 1992, in a civil ceremony in [[San Francisco]]. However, all [[same-sex marriage]] licenses [[San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings|given by the city at that time]] were subsequently voided by the [[Supreme Court of California|California Supreme Court]]. Bechdel and Rubin separated in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|first=Oliver|last=Burkeman|title=A life stripped bare|url=https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,,1923213,00.html|format=free registration required|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=October 16, 2006|access-date=January 22, 2007}}</ref> She subsequently lived with her partner Holly Rae Taylor, a painter,<ref name=NY /> for seven and a half years before their marriage in July 2015.<ref>{{cite news|author=Tim Teeman|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/29/lesbian-desire-a-father-s-suicide-and-12-tony-noms-alison-bechdel-on-fun-home.html|title=Lesbian Desire, a Father's Suicide and 12 Tony Noms: Alison Bechdel on 'Fun Home'|magazine=Thedailybeast.com|date=April 29, 2015}}</ref> She lives in [[Bolton, Vermont]], in a house she bought in 1996, adding her own studio to work in.<ref name=NY /><ref name=stuck>{{cite AV media |people=Sollberger, Eva (director) |date=May 6, 2021 |title=Stuck in Vermont: Alison Bechdel Shares 'The Secret to Superhuman Strength' |url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/stuck-in-vermont-alison-bechdel-shares-the-secret-to-superhuman-strength/Content?oid=32914655&media=AMP+HTML |access-date=May 6, 2021 |time=10:31 |location= |publisher=[[Seven Days (newspaper)|Seven Days]]}}</ref> Bechdel goes by she/her pronouns.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Anderson |first=Hephzibah |date=2023-07-02 |title=Alison Bechdel: 'The Bechdel test was a joke... I didn't intend for it to become a real gauge' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/02/alison-bechdel-test-dykes-to-watch-out-for-cartoonist-interview |access-date=2024-03-17 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref>