The New Rul of Marriage: On Gay, Interfah & Interracial Coupl

Contents:

• EXPLAINER: CONGRS IS ACTG ON GAY, INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
• ONE INTERRACIAL GAY COUPLE TRI TO TRAVEL FEARLSLY — AND SOMETIM FDS ACCEPTANCE SURPRISG PLAC
• THEY WERE A GAY, TERRACIAL UPLE AN AGE OF RELENTLS BIGOTRY. THE TWO HAROLDS DIDN’T FLCH.
• BLACK AND WHE: 3 GAY INTERRACIAL EROTIC SHORT STORI
• AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL
• GAY INTERRACIAL
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

EXPLAINER: CONGRS IS ACTG ON GAY, INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE

Stt ApplewheCHICAGO (AP) — Legislatn that ensur same-sex and terracial marriag are regnized as legal unns appears head for fal approval and Print Joe Bin's signature, a bipartisan agreement that reflects a wir acceptance of gay rights both Congrs and the measure, which would protect the rights of about a half ln married upl, passed the Senate last week and heads to the Hoe this week for near-certa many of the upl whose marriag will be protected, approval of the Rpect for Marriage Act brought a sense of relief and was e for celebratn. That monumental cisn legalized gay marriage natnwi, endg bans 14 stat that still had them. Virgia, validated state laws that banned marriag between people of different the years after Obergefell, some supporters of gay rights worried the eedom to marry uld one day be revoked, and pursued versns of the Rpect for Marriage Act, said Jon Davidson, senr staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project and -unsel on there wasn't the urgency or polil will to advance — until this NOW?

ONE INTERRACIAL GAY COUPLE TRI TO TRAVEL FEARLSLY — AND SOMETIM FDS ACCEPTANCE SURPRISG PLAC

” But was the words of a fellow nservative, Jtice Clarence Thomas, that alarmed gay-rights supporters. ”At the same time, the LGBTQ muny has been the target of vlence, Davidson said, notg the recent murrs at a gay nightclub Colorado. My hband and I, undnted by whatever dangers might face a gay terracial uple abroad, have traveled fearlsly enough to ighten my -laws.

THEY WERE A GAY, TERRACIAL UPLE AN AGE OF RELENTLS BIGOTRY. THE TWO HAROLDS DIDN’T FLCH.

We disapprove of untri where ’s legal to stone gay people to ath.

Brendan and I don’t want to support the enomi of plac wh homophobic laws, like Myanmar, Kenya, or Sdi Arabia — the latter’s royal fay hardly needs our three-dollar bills.

We did go to the Maldiv, where they have whipped people for homosexual activy, but there seem to be separate l for lols and visors — I thk the tourists get safe words. But ambiguy and hospaly don’t mix well eher; gay travelers want the same treatment as straight on, and rorts and hotels want to acmodate the burgeong number of tourists who intify as LGBTQ.

BLACK AND WHE: 3 GAY INTERRACIAL EROTIC SHORT STORI

Related: What It’s like to Travel Ameri As a Gay Couple Livg an RV: Episo 2 of Travel + Leisure’s New Podst. Even gay-iendly spac the U. So plac wh lower gay visibily, we sometim hear people tryg to figure out.

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In fact, on a lol island, we had the oppose experience om anonymo Europeans exclaimg their disgt, or beg heterosexualized and name-flipped by the management: a ncierge a hijab very sweetly asked if we were together, sed when we told her that we were, and treated like the other guts at the hotel — some of whom were also gay. While rtrictg our travel largely to plac where homosexualy is legal but often ls visible has rced our strs — and nowhere the fn of hardship do say “havg to choose Curaçao over Jamai” — we’ve actually had more nontatnal experienc at home New York, where the laws are some of the most liberal this si of Amsterdam. On gay datg apps like Grdr, many ers have profil that nta phras like “I don’t date Black men, ” or that claim they are “not attracted to Latos.

AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL

Sce 2015 I’ve been studyg LGBTQ culture and gay life, and much of that time has been spent tryg to untangle and unrstand the tensns and prejudic wh gay culture. I’m seekg to move beyond simply scribg the problem and to better unrstand why some gay men behave this way.

From 2015 to 2019 I terviewed gay men om the Midwt and Wt Coast regns of the Uned Stat.

A slice of that project – which was recently published the journal Deviant Behavr – explor the way gay men ratnalize their sexual racism and discrimatn on Grdr. The gay men I nnected wh tend to make one of two jtifitns. The other way that I observed some gay men jtifyg their discrimatn was by amg a way that put the emphasis back on the app.

GAY INTERRACIAL

While social media apps have dramatilly altered the landspe of gay culture, the benefs om the technologil tools n sometim be difficult to see. Scff, another gay datg app, requir ers to reveal more of who they are. In a robt but lopsid bate, Democrats argued tensely favor of enshrg marriage equaly feral law, while Republins steered clear of openly rejectg gay marriage.

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‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

Hodg, which tablished the rights of same-sex upl to marry natnwi, a landmark se for gay rights.