Tera Leggett's life changed when her hband me out as gay. Twenty years later, she was the "bt man" at her ex's weddg.
Contents:
- I HELPED MY EX-HBAND E OUT AS GAY. 20 YEARS LATER, I'M BT IENDS WH HIM AND HIS NEW HBAND.
- A LETTER TO … MY EX-HBAND, WHO IS GAY
- THE LBIAN WRER AND HER FLAMBOYANT GAY HBAND
- GAY REPUBLIN NONTS TED CZ OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- TED CZ: SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE CISN WAS ‘CLEARLY WRONG’
I HELPED MY EX-HBAND E OUT AS GAY. 20 YEARS LATER, I'M BT IENDS WH HIM AND HIS NEW HBAND.
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Tera Leggett at Mardi Gras wh her ex-hband (left) and his new LeggettWhen Tera Leggett's hband me out as gay, she took him to Mardi Gras now ns an LGBTQ social group and was the "bt man" at his is Leggett's story, as told to Gary as-told-to say is based on a nversatn wh Tera Leggett.
It has been eded for length and year, when I dance Sydney's Mardi Gras para wh my ex-hband, his new hband, and 160 people the LGBTQ social group I found, I always thk back to the 29-year-old woman who realized she married a gay my ial anguish and even anger, I uldn't have imaged that two s later, my then-hband's g out would save both of and help fd our purpos.
20 years ago, dawned on me that my hband was gayMichael and I got married when I was 21, and our marriage lasted a — eight years of which were very happy.
A LETTER TO … MY EX-HBAND, WHO IS GAY
Sudnly, I had this skg night, I asked Michael outright if he was gay. When he uld get the words out, he fally said he was gay — the relief he mt've felt. Michael was termed to keep his vows to me, sayg even though he was gay, he didn't need to act on .
THE LBIAN WRER AND HER FLAMBOYANT GAY HBAND
You thk 's better to be ad than be gay — and look! And they're all celebratg how wonrful is to be gay.
It's lled Free Gay and Happy.
As an ally, I've always been self-nsc about stg myself as the "hero, " but I've seen firsthand how gay people often, unfairly, have to stggle to fd the urage to live their tth. Free Gay and Happy is also a social group throughout the 's my love letter to Michael — how grateful I am he's alive, how proud I am of him.
GAY REPUBLIN NONTS TED CZ OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
I quickly started buildg a new life for myself a new cy, but Michael and I remaed close iends, often meetg to attend gay parti together.
I hope there will be a time when no gay man or woman feels the need to live that lie, to ver thwarted sexualy wh anger, to waste their own and a partner's life wh promis that will never reach the fishg le, to e unspeakable emotnal celty agast another person they once loved and rpected. Early was wildly handsome, gay, wh soulful brown ey and a head full of loose, unly curls.
Once, the middle of wter Washgton Square Park, I watched him unbutton his at and drape across the shoulrs of a dnk who had jt lled him a homophobic slur. I was an ex-Christian and newly out lbian fleeg the vlent homophobia of the late 1990s Jamai, still wearg the fury of beg attacked by a dozen boys and sexually asslted Kgston. Except he wasn’t gay, or a poet.
TED CZ: SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE CISN WAS ‘CLEARLY WRONG’
We often lled each other to remisce about Peter, to reunt the sorcery of him, to bask the shared memory of his, when I beme antic wh the sire to start a fay — chasg gay men at hoe parti, beggg sperm om strangers on plan — I broke down and wept for what felt like the too-early ath of my hband.
I wanted to be the badass lbian wrer, wh the flamboyant gay hband, raisg four children a ramblg old hoe that ed to be a church, two blocks om the beach Far one nversatn wh CJ, he terpted to ask if there was a way he uld stand for Peter, by givg me his sperm. His brothers, their wiv, Peter’s grandmother, his father, me, my non-monogamo partner and a betiful hort of ordary folks, misfs, artists, preachers, wrers, activists, gay, straight, nonbary. Republin printial ndidate Ted Cz ced relig liberty and stat’ rights when asked by a gay Republin Monday what he would do as print to protect same-sex upl.