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Contents:
- CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE
- DIVORCED COUPLE ARE COMMTED TO FAY AFTER HE COM OUT AS GAY: 'OUR LOVE IS DIFFERENT NOW'
- FDG OUT YOUR SPOE IS GAY
CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE
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.
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. 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.
DIVORCED COUPLE ARE COMMTED TO FAY AFTER HE COM OUT AS GAY: 'OUR LOVE IS DIFFERENT NOW'
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. Last July, Jsi Turner's hband Matthew, a bt-sellg Christian children's book thor, took to Instagram to share the "difficult news" that he was gay and that they were endg their 16-year marriage. "Beg gay isn't a new disvery for me, " he wrote.
But growg up a nservative, fundamentalist Baptist church, he was tght over and over aga that God rejected homosexualy.
FDG OUT YOUR SPOE IS GAY
"I lived wh the ia that I jt uldn't be gay, " he ntu. "I uld not be gay.
The pair entered marriage unselg, and the summer of 2019, Matthew revealed he was possibly bisexual, sharg a few months later that he was gay: "I mean, she flat out asked me, 'I want to know, are you…'".