“Helloooo, this is Dr. Maya Angelou calling. Tell me something: Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?” This was the question posed by the Pulitzer prize-winning poet over the phone to State Senator Shirley Huntley , a Queens Democrat who opposes same-sex marriage. It wasn’t a pre-recorded robocall; it was actually Angelou, and at first Huntley thought it was a joke, telling the Times , “I said, ‘What?’ I heard the voice, and I said: ‘My God. It is her.’ And that was that.” But by ‘that was that,’ she doesn’t mean Angelou changed her mind. The impassioned phone call failed to shake Huntley’s commitment to defend the…
