In most public discsns, the issue of same-sex marriage is posed as a simple qutn – for or agast? – where to be for or agast is to be, more or ls, for or agast gay people. Although don’t…
Contents:
- THE PROBLEM WH GAY MARRIAGE
- REAMG THE ARGUMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE: AN ODD SOLUTN TO LEGIMATE PROBLEMS
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
THE PROBLEM WH GAY MARRIAGE
* problem with gay marriage *
Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said. Although don’t get much airtime beyond queer unterpublics, there is an adamantly left-wg, progrsive and pro-gay perspective that suggts same-sex marriage is not a necsary good.
Lbian and gay muni, and the femist muni wh which they have historilly overlapped, have long celebrated the valu of sexual diversy over the sexual nformy reprented by marriage and the ethil importance of sexual straight-talkg rather than the double-standards so equently observed marriage’s vicy. Gay men and lbians n sneak around wh the bt of them, of urse, but marriage, as is legally fed, generat ndns for dishonty, disavowal and sexual hypocrisy.
There’s a tenncy among s proponents to reprent same-sex marriage as the fal chapter the story of gay acceptance, “the last civil right” as has sometim exaggeratedly been lled. It is large part bee of femist and gay novatns livg that marriage today is creasgly unrstood not as a relig but a social relatn; characterised not by male domatn but equaly and mutualy between the sex; valued not terms of s ntractual basis but terms of s ongog ntributn to a person’s sense of well-beg; and mataed not until ath-do--part but for as long as both parti fd satisfactn .
REAMG THE ARGUMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE
Rather than adm lbians and gay men to marriage as currently nceived, we should avow more fully the range of optns that characterise a lot of our liv and livg arrangements. The argument favor of extendg legal marriage to same-sex upl pends primarily on wantg to extend the benefs and privileg of marriage to lbian and gay upl.
In regnisg some gay and lbian relatnships as marriag, same-sex marriage emphasis the ntued illegimacy of other sexual arrangements and the ntued excln of other social actors.
Now this ragtag bunch might not seem as worthy of social protectn and prtige as the lovg, rg, long-term gay and lbian upl that are the shy new poster boys and girls for same-sex marriage. “I have suggted to others that not only would I like to see Roe, Casey, and Griswold on ntraceptn dified but I’ve also ma clear my support for, for gay marriage years ago, ” she said. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.
GAY MARRIAGE: AN ODD SOLUTN TO LEGIMATE PROBLEMS
There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.
The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
What if some rels homosexual is stgglg wh a heavy suse and cis to lower the mass of the pla to rce the strength of gravy? Our relatnship founred over the vexed issue of refg marriage, for my iend was gay and expected to affirm the legalizatn of gay marriage the Uned Stat and his forthg betrothal, as he referred to , to his longtime partner. He objected to a rather obscure Facebook ment which my wife plored how the gay lobby's jtifiable plea for tolerance, wh which she was fully on board, had morphed to the triumphalist mand for the unndnal celebratn of all thgs gay, om gay polickg to Gay Pri to so-lled gay qutn of relig eedom and belief, sanctned by the Constutn, also entered to the equatn.
Although I regard the rctn of inty to one's sexual preferenc, whatever the might be, as a dimishment of the plex spectm of human personaly, I have nothg agast the practice of homosexualy – to each his own – and nsired a non-issue and none of my bs.
Gay "marriage, " taken to s rct ad absurdum, would termate the disappearance of the human race om the face of the Earth. In weakeng the stutn of marriage, gay people llg themselv spo actually endorse the logic of speci annihilatn.