Gay divorce: It may not be as easy as the marriage

Contents:

• TUMBLR SHPOST NVC MANY THAT PIRAT OF THE CARIBBEAN HAD GAY PIRATE DIVORCE
• CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE
• ‘I MOSTLY OPPOSE GAY DIVORCE’: HIGHLIGHTS FROM ANN COULTER’S REDD AMA
• MAN SUPPORTED FOR 'HATG' WIFE OF 20 YEARS AFTER SHE CAME OUT AS GAY
• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY
• I ME OUT AS GAY TO MY WIFE. NOW SHE AND MY SON HATE ME. WHAT N I DO?
• GAY DIVORCE: IT MAY NOT BE AS EASY AS THE MARRIAGE

TUMBLR SHPOST NVC MANY THAT PIRAT OF THE CARIBBEAN HAD GAY PIRATE DIVORCE

Signifintly higher than gay marriag.

CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE

Wife me out as gay, got divorced, fay is toxic. “I nnot BELIEVE how soon you people fot that jack sparrow is lerally nonilly gay divorced, ” reads the end of a Tumblr post by er everythgispirat. For the rerd, Jack Sparrow is not nonilly gay divorced.

What is particularly funny, though, is the choice to make Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa “gay divorced, ” which is s own si joke when to ship dynamics across Tumblr.

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. 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.

‘I MOSTLY OPPOSE GAY DIVORCE’: HIGHLIGHTS FROM ANN COULTER’S REDD AMA

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.

MAN SUPPORTED FOR 'HATG' WIFE OF 20 YEARS AFTER SHE CAME OUT AS GAY

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

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.

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY

Another qutner asked her pot-blank why she oppos gay marriage. " The origal poster's (OP) wife's father recently died, and he was "famoly homophobic" and had even disowned his son for beg gay. A man was supported for "hatg" his wife of 20 years after she me out as gay.

5 percent intify as gay, 11.

I ME OUT AS GAY TO MY WIFE. NOW SHE AND MY SON HATE ME. WHAT N I DO?

"Turns out he was gay. Beg gay has been accepted mastream for like 20 years.

Then you disver that your spoe or partner is, fact, gay.

How to Regnize Your Spoe Is Gay. Unls your spoe shar their sexual orientatn wh you, there is no way to know for sure if they are gay.

GAY DIVORCE: IT MAY NOT BE AS EASY AS THE MARRIAGE

You notice pop-ups of gay pornography or gay datg s on their vic.

You notice a new group of iends on their social media, many of whom are openly gay. You notice them talkg more about gay people nversatn, eher a posive light or rogatory manner. Among the upl, when the gay, lbian, or bisexual partner out, a third of the upl break up immediately; another third stay together for one to two years and then spl; the remag third try to make their marriag work.