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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.
DIVORCED COUPLE ARE COMMTED TO FAY AFTER HE COM OUT AS GAY: 'OUR LOVE IS DIFFERENT NOW'
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. 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.
FDG OUT YOUR SPOE IS GAY
"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.
"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…'".