Romaine Patterson

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Romaine Patterson is currently the co-host with Derek Hartley of the Derek and Romaine show on Sirius Satellite Radio's SIRIUS OutQ channel 109.

Announced on February 2, 2007 that she's pregnant with her and her partner's first child.^[1]

1 Childhood and Family
2 Activisim
3 Ties to Matthew Shepard
4 References

[edit] Childhood and Family

Romaine is the youngest of eight children in her family. Three of her brothers are gay, and one, Micheal died from AIDS. She spent several summers during High School in Denver, Colorado living with her brothers and working at Diedrich's coffee shop.

[edit] Activisim

In response to planned protests by Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church during the trials of Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, Romaine organized the "Angel Action" counter protests. These were groups of people dressed as angels with extremely large wingspans and height that shielded the families from the messages being spread by Phelps and his group.

She has also worked at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

[edit] Ties to Matthew Shepard

Born and raised in Wyoming, she was friends with Matthew Shepard.

She's written a book about her experiences as an activist since the death of Matthew, called The Whole World Was Watching. Christina Ricci played Romaine in the movie The Laramie Project.