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• TYPES OF LGBTQ DIVORCEMOST THK OF DIVORCE AS MONOLHIC. WHEN TO THE LGBTQ MUNY, THAT IS CERTALY NOT THE SE. EACH PART OF OUR MUNY HAS HIS, HER, OR THEY’S CHALLENG. LET’S START AT THE BEGNG OF HOW DIVORCE ENTERS OUR MUNY. THERE ARE THREE PRIMARY WAYS THE MUNY FAC DIVORCE.LONG-TERM GAY AND LESBIAN COUPLESWHEN PEOPLE THK OF LGBTQ DIVORCE, EVABLY, THEY WILL THK OF SAME-SEX DIVORCE. INTERTGLY, THIS IS NOT THE MOST MON WAY DIVORCE IMPACTS OUR MUNY, BUT IS HOW MANY OF YOU WILL HAVE DIVORCE CREEP TO YOUR LIFE. AS WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO MARRY FOR TOO LONG, DIVORCE N BE PLITED. MANY SAME-SEX PARTNERS LIVED YEARS WHOUT ANY LEGAL PROTECTN. WHEN STAT LIKE NEW JERSEY BEGAN TO OFFER PROTECTNS, SUCH AS DOMTIC PARTNERSHIP AND CIVIL UNN, SOME UPL AVAILED THEMSELV OF THE “SEPARATE BUT ALLEGEDLY EQUAL” STAT TO SOLIDIFY THAT WHICH THEY HAD LIVED FOR MANY YEARS.THEN, DIVORCE WAS LEGALIZED ACROSS THE UNTRY. THIS PATCHWORK OF LEGAL AND RMAL STAT N CREATE A HEADACHE FOR EVEN THE MOST SEASONED DIVORCE ATTORNEY. WHAT IF YOU WERE WH YOUR CURRENT WIFE FOR TEN YEARS, THEN ENTERED TO A NEW JERSEY DOMTIC PARTNERSHIP 2004, AND THEN GOT MARRIED 2013? DID THE FACT THAT YOU SKIPPED A CIVIL UNN HAVE ANY LEGAL SIGNIFINCE? HOW DO YOU TAKE TO NSIRATN THE “PRE-MARRIAGE” YEARS WHEN DIVIDG PROPERTY OR LOOKG AT SUPPORT? IN PART 2 OF THIS SERI, WE WILL LOOK TO THE ISSU.COMING OUT LATER IN LIFE SITUATIONSINTERTGLY, A MORE MON WAY DIVORCE ENTERS OUR MUNY IS WH MEN, WOMEN, AND NON-BARY DIVIDUALS WHO REALIZE THEIR “TRADNAL” OPPOSE-SEX MARRIAGE IS NO LONGER SOMETHG THEY WANT TO LIVE . GIVEN THE SOCIETAL CHANG AND THE EVER-CREASG ACCEPTANCE OF LGBTQ RELATNSHIPS AMERIN CULTURE, MANY MUNY MEMBERS HAVE FOUND THAT PLAYG THE ROLE OF SOMEONE AN OPPOSE-SEX MARRIAGE IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE FOR THEM. I HAVE DIVORCED MORE THAN FIFTY MEN AND WOMEN WHO LIVED A “TRADNAL” MARRIAGE FOR S. WHEN ONE LOOKS AT THE LANDSPE THE 1980S AND 1990S, IS NOT SURPRISG THAT MANY THEIR FORTY’S AND FIFTY’S HAVE NOW CID TO LIVE THEIR THENTIC LIV, WHICH UALLY MEANS DIVORCE OM THEIR HBAND OR WIFE.THERE IS A MYRIAD OF CHALLENG THE DIVORC. WHILE THEY ARE PRIMARILY STRAIGHTFORWARD OM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE, UNRSTANDG EMOTNAL AND CULTURAL NUISANCE IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE. THE OTHER SPOE N BE VERY HURT. SOMETIM N H THEM LIKE CHEATG ON STEROIDS. IN ADDN, THERE IS ACTUAL BIAS THE URT SYSTEM WHEN TO CTODY AND CHILDREN WH PARENTS WHO E OUT AS LGBTQ. THE S TAKE A NATURAL TOUCH ALG WH THE PERSON GOG THROUGH , THEIR SPOE, THE OTHER ATTORNEY, THE MEDIATOR, AND THE JUDGE.COMING OUT AS TRANSGENDERONE OF THE MOST TRYG TYP OF LGBTQ DIVORCE IS WHERE ONE SPOE HAS E OUT AS TRANSGENR. THE SUATNS ARE CHALLENGG FOR BOTH THE OTHER SPOE BUT ALSO THE CHILDREN. UNRSTANDG THE ISSU THAT THE TRANSGENR MUNY FACE, WHILE APPLYG TRADNAL DIVORCE PROCRE AND LAW, N BE QUE THE TAP DANCE. THE DIVIDUAL THAT IS TRANSNG IS GOG THROUGH ENOUGH THEMSELV THAT HAVG A STRSFUL DIVORCE PROCS N BLUNT THE JOY OF LIVG THAT PERSON’S TE SELF.ON THE SURFACE, THE ARE TYPIL DIVORC. BUT, THEY ALSO HAVE SOME UNIQUE CHALLENG. I HAVE SEEN SUATNS WHERE ONE SPOE HAS E OUT TO THEIR SPOE, AND THEY JOTLY TRY TO MAKE WORK. IN OTHER SUATNS, IMMEDIATELY LEADS TO A DIVORCE. YOU MT HAVE AN ATTORNEY THAT HELPS NAVIGATE ALL OF THE CHALLENG.THE REAL-LIFE IMPACT OF DIVORCE ON THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY
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• MOSW: GAY MOSW
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

TYPES OF LGBTQ DIVORCEMOST THK OF DIVORCE AS MONOLHIC. WHEN TO THE LGBTQ MUNY, THAT IS CERTALY NOT THE SE. EACH PART OF OUR MUNY HAS HIS, HER, OR THEY’S CHALLENG. LET’S START AT THE BEGNG OF HOW DIVORCE ENTERS OUR MUNY. THERE ARE THREE PRIMARY WAYS THE MUNY FAC DIVORCE.LONG-TERM GAY AND LESBIAN COUPLESWHEN PEOPLE THK OF LGBTQ DIVORCE, EVABLY, THEY WILL THK OF SAME-SEX DIVORCE. INTERTGLY, THIS IS NOT THE MOST MON WAY DIVORCE IMPACTS OUR MUNY, BUT IS HOW MANY OF YOU WILL HAVE DIVORCE CREEP TO YOUR LIFE. AS WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO MARRY FOR TOO LONG, DIVORCE N BE PLITED. MANY SAME-SEX PARTNERS LIVED YEARS WHOUT ANY LEGAL PROTECTN. WHEN STAT LIKE NEW JERSEY BEGAN TO OFFER PROTECTNS, SUCH AS DOMTIC PARTNERSHIP AND CIVIL UNN, SOME UPL AVAILED THEMSELV OF THE “SEPARATE BUT ALLEGEDLY EQUAL” STAT TO SOLIDIFY THAT WHICH THEY HAD LIVED FOR MANY YEARS.THEN, DIVORCE WAS LEGALIZED ACROSS THE UNTRY. THIS PATCHWORK OF LEGAL AND RMAL STAT N CREATE A HEADACHE FOR EVEN THE MOST SEASONED DIVORCE ATTORNEY. WHAT IF YOU WERE WH YOUR CURRENT WIFE FOR TEN YEARS, THEN ENTERED TO A NEW JERSEY DOMTIC PARTNERSHIP 2004, AND THEN GOT MARRIED 2013? DID THE FACT THAT YOU SKIPPED A CIVIL UNN HAVE ANY LEGAL SIGNIFINCE? HOW DO YOU TAKE TO NSIRATN THE “PRE-MARRIAGE” YEARS WHEN DIVIDG PROPERTY OR LOOKG AT SUPPORT? IN PART 2 OF THIS SERI, WE WILL LOOK TO THE ISSU.COMING OUT LATER IN LIFE SITUATIONSINTERTGLY, A MORE MON WAY DIVORCE ENTERS OUR MUNY IS WH MEN, WOMEN, AND NON-BARY DIVIDUALS WHO REALIZE THEIR “TRADNAL” OPPOSE-SEX MARRIAGE IS NO LONGER SOMETHG THEY WANT TO LIVE . GIVEN THE SOCIETAL CHANG AND THE EVER-CREASG ACCEPTANCE OF LGBTQ RELATNSHIPS AMERIN CULTURE, MANY MUNY MEMBERS HAVE FOUND THAT PLAYG THE ROLE OF SOMEONE AN OPPOSE-SEX MARRIAGE IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE FOR THEM. I HAVE DIVORCED MORE THAN FIFTY MEN AND WOMEN WHO LIVED A “TRADNAL” MARRIAGE FOR S. WHEN ONE LOOKS AT THE LANDSPE THE 1980S AND 1990S, IS NOT SURPRISG THAT MANY THEIR FORTY’S AND FIFTY’S HAVE NOW CID TO LIVE THEIR THENTIC LIV, WHICH UALLY MEANS DIVORCE OM THEIR HBAND OR WIFE.THERE IS A MYRIAD OF CHALLENG THE DIVORC. WHILE THEY ARE PRIMARILY STRAIGHTFORWARD OM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE, UNRSTANDG EMOTNAL AND CULTURAL NUISANCE IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE. THE OTHER SPOE N BE VERY HURT. SOMETIM N H THEM LIKE CHEATG ON STEROIDS. IN ADDN, THERE IS ACTUAL BIAS THE URT SYSTEM WHEN TO CTODY AND CHILDREN WH PARENTS WHO E OUT AS LGBTQ. THE S TAKE A NATURAL TOUCH ALG WH THE PERSON GOG THROUGH , THEIR SPOE, THE OTHER ATTORNEY, THE MEDIATOR, AND THE JUDGE.COMING OUT AS TRANSGENDERONE OF THE MOST TRYG TYP OF LGBTQ DIVORCE IS WHERE ONE SPOE HAS E OUT AS TRANSGENR. THE SUATNS ARE CHALLENGG FOR BOTH THE OTHER SPOE BUT ALSO THE CHILDREN. UNRSTANDG THE ISSU THAT THE TRANSGENR MUNY FACE, WHILE APPLYG TRADNAL DIVORCE PROCRE AND LAW, N BE QUE THE TAP DANCE. THE DIVIDUAL THAT IS TRANSNG IS GOG THROUGH ENOUGH THEMSELV THAT HAVG A STRSFUL DIVORCE PROCS N BLUNT THE JOY OF LIVG THAT PERSON’S TE SELF.ON THE SURFACE, THE ARE TYPIL DIVORC. BUT, THEY ALSO HAVE SOME UNIQUE CHALLENG. I HAVE SEEN SUATNS WHERE ONE SPOE HAS E OUT TO THEIR SPOE, AND THEY JOTLY TRY TO MAKE WORK. IN OTHER SUATNS, IMMEDIATELY LEADS TO A DIVORCE. YOU MT HAVE AN ATTORNEY THAT HELPS NAVIGATE ALL OF THE CHALLENG.THE REAL-LIFE IMPACT OF DIVORCE ON THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY

The statistics may provi some sight to how the legalizatn of same-sex marriage has affected the divorce rate among gay and lbian Marriag Takg PlaceSce the legalizatn of same-sex marriag 2015, there has been a drastic crease the unns. This also means that lbian divorce rat are higher than other same-sex upl and about twice as likely to file for divorce as gay upl.

When to the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) muny, n be even more difficult. There are three primary ways the muny fac GAY AND LESBIAN COUPLESWhen people thk of LGBTQ divorce, evably, they will thk of same-sex divorce.

One UK study revealed that lbian upl were three tim more likely to unrgo divorce than gay upl. Celebratg My (Gay) DivorceMarriage equaly means divorce equaly—and I feel pri, as well as sadns, about my spl om my WhmanEdor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Augt 25, 2013, I said “I do” to Jim, my partner of ne years, who beme my “lawfully wedd hband. I didn’t want to be “gay married”; I wanted to be “married” like any other uple, thank you very much.

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Our divorce, I thk, did as much as to legimize marriage equaly as our more: How gay marriage beme a nstutnal rightLike so many other people of my generatn, I never thought I’d be able to marry “my hband” and “to love, re for, and support him, ” as we put our vows. As she explaed later, after other gay male upl town got hched, “I like to thk that my [male] iends who have hbands n fd a ty b of validatn hearg that term applied to their chosen one.

(I also didn’t want to be known as the “gay divorcé, ” as some of my iends began llg me.

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We did not—uld not—jt snap our fgers and erase our turned out, many of our iends—straight and gay—didn’t thk divorce laws applied to same-sex upl. Fred Hertz, a California-based lawyer specializg same-sex-fay law, told me: “What is really surprisg to many of my clients is there is no separate set of l for gay upl—nventnal heterosexual divorce law appli to all married upl, gay or straight.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

I, too, have been a very public advote for same-sex marriage, and I feared that I had “let down my tribe, ” as another gay man told me after his marriage end. Navigatg gay divorce. Naturally, gay divorce wasn’t far behd.

Here is everythg you need to know about gay divorce should your gay marriage e to an end.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

A brief history of marriage equaly/gay marriage. Before we get to the specifics of gay divorce, let’s first discs a brief history of the fight to ga marriage equaly the Uned Stat. Wh that w for the gay muny, an even bigger landmark se would ga steam after first beg troduced 2012.

MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

Alabama and Texas held out as long as they uld, but gay marriage is officially legal all stat, cludg terrori.