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• HOW TO HAVE THE GAYT SUMMER EVERBY BRETT BERKJUNE 21, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAFTER 20 YEARS TOGETHER, MY BOYIEND ASKED ME TO GAY MARRY HIM THIS SUMMER. WELL, NOT REALLY. WE OFTEN PLAY THIS GAME OF WILL YOU GAY MARRY ME? WHERE ONE OF PROPOS TO THE OTHER SIMPLY TO ELIC A REJECTN. THIS YEAR, HE GOT TO ASK, AND I TOLD HIM I’D DO , BUT ONLY IF I ULD NVCE FERRARI TO LOAN A V-12 GT FOR THE DRIVE TO SOME LOL, LEGAL STATE SO AT LEAST I ULD GET AN ARTICLE OUT OF FOR MY GAY-R LUMN HERE AT VF. “NEVER MD,” HE SAID. “I DON’T KNOW WHY I WANTED TO GAY MARRY YOU THE FIRST PLACE.” BUT ANOTHER YEAR WHOUT MATRIMONY IS NOT GOG TO STOP OM HAVG THE GAYT SUMMER EVER. SO HONOR OF TODAY’S SOLSTICE AND THIS WEEK’S NYC GAY PRIDE FTIVI, I WOULD LIKE TO PRENT THIS PENDIUM OF FIVE PECIALLY FAGGOTY THGS WE WILL BE DOG DURG OVER THE NEXT THREE MONTHS. SCE WE HOMOSEXUALS ARE STYLE LEARS, YOU ALL WILL BE DOG THE THGS THE NEXT FIVE TO TEN YEARS, SO DON’T LGH TOO HARD.MOSS GARNG: OUR HOE UPSTATE, WHERE WE’LL BE SPENDG THE SUMMER, IS NTLED A GROVE OF TALL, SUN-BLOCKG, AND SOIL-ACIDIFYG 100-YEAR-OLD WHE PE TRE. THE TRE ARE WILY REPUTED, BY LOL RINTS, TO BE GOOD FOR NOTHG. BUT THAT’S NOT TE. THEY’RE GREAT FOR PROVIDG VER FOR THE GROWTH OF ALKALE-LOVG MOSS. OF URSE, BEG ENMIC BREERS, OTHER PLANTS LIKE TO SEND THEIR SEEDLGS AND TRAILG ROOTS UP THROUGH THE FUZZY GREEN STUFF, SO ORR TO VELOP—AND ENURAGE FURTHER GROWTH OF—THE GEO RPET YOU SEE HERE, WE HAVE TO SPEND UNTLS HOURS CROUCHED DOWN ON THE GROUND PICKG EVERY OTHER LIVG SPROUT OUT OF OUR MOSS BY S ROOTS. OUR NEIGHBORS THK WE ARE LLECTG ANTS OR WORMS. (THEY ALSO THK WE ARE SANE AND SHOULD JT GET A LAWN.)DRARIUM CONSTCTN: WE HAVE BEEN OBSSED WH MIATURE DRAMAS FOR YEARS NOW—WHO HASN’T? WE’VE PURCHASED LARGE ETANDG ON, SMALL ON ENSED LUCE BOX, AND EVEN ONE THAT FORMS THE BASE OF A LAMP, ALL FEATURG DIVERSE SCEN OF WILDLIFE, GEOLOGIL FORMATNS, AND R WRECKS. BUT A FEW YEARS BACK WE NSTCTED ONE OUT THE YARD WH ONE OF OUR NEPHEWS THAT WAS MORE OF A “LIVG” DRAMA, WH SMALL PLANTS AND CLUMPS OF MOSS CLTERED AROUND A SCENE OF AN DTRIAL WASTELAND (PLETE WH A MIATURE BURNG TRASH BARREL). THIS GAVE THE IA OF CRAFTG SMALL, SELF-NTAED TABLEX VTAGE VR, EACH OF WHICH WOULD FEATURE AN TRIGUG LOTN, ADORABLE BUILDGS, AND LIVE FOLIAGE. OUR THOUGHTS TH FAR: DRIVE-IN MOVIE, FRONTIER VILLAGE, AND HNTED SUMMER CAMP (WH SLASHER’S LAIR/BODY P).MOST POPULARJIMMY AND ROSALYNN CARTER ENTERG “FAL DAYS” HEALTH UPDATEBY JACK MCCORDICK25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISRUDY GIULIANI: I HAVE “SCIENTIFIC EVINCE” THE 2020 ELECTN WAS STOLEN FROM DONALD TMPBY BS LEVPICKLG: I HAVE LONG WANTED TO MAKE PICKL, BUT MY BF AND BFF PUT THE KIBOSH ON . “YOU ARE GAY ENOUGH ALREADY,” THEY TOLD ME. BUT TURNS OUT THEY WERE JT TEMPORARILY OPPOSED, BASED ON MY THEN-TENSE FATUATN WH ONLE CTNS OF A CERTA PATTERN OF 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH TRANSFERWARE (RIDGWAYS PERSIA, IF YOU MT KNOW). SCE THAT HAS E TO AN END (PRETTY MUCH, I STILL BID ON THE OCSNAL PIECE; DON’T TELL THEM!), I’M APPARENTLY NOW ALLOWED TO DULGE THE VEGARED ALCHEMIL ARTS. I WANT TO START WH RADISH AND STRG BEANS. “FE,” THEY SAY. “BUT JT SO YOU DON’T GET ANY IAS, YOU NNOT START MAKG HOMEMA JAM!”MOST POPULARJIMMY AND ROSALYNN CARTER ENTERG “FAL DAYS” HEALTH UPDATEBY JACK MCCORDICK25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISRUDY GIULIANI: I HAVE “SCIENTIFIC EVINCE” THE 2020 ELECTN WAS STOLEN FROM DONALD TMPBY BS LEVROSE TRELLISG: ONE DAY A FEW YEARS BACK, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WOULDN’T BE OL TO BUILD SOMETHG? BUT LACKG ANY TOOLS, MATERIALS, SKILLS, SPATIAL-RELATNS TELLIGENCE, OR PLAN, THIS IS WHAT I CREATED: A WOBBLY TRELLIS FOR A WEIRD WILD ROSE BH THAT WAS GROWG THE ONT YARD. (THIS WAS BEFORE DEEPWATER HORIZON, BUT AFTER THERE WILL BE BLOOD, THOUGH NO OIL WELL REFERENCE WAS TEND.) NOW, TWO YEARS LATER, AFTER SCPULO PNG AND GUIDANCE, WE HAVE THIS BREATHTAKG DISPLAY. THE OTHER DAY, I TOLD MY BOYIEND I WANT TO EXPAND THIS STICK NSTCTN—WHICH I LIKE TO THK OF AS A PURE EXAMPLE OF THE ARTS-AND-CRAPS ATHETIC—TO A LOGGIA UNR WHICH WE N PLACE A TABLE. “THAT,” HE SAID, “IS A DISGTG IA.”ROSé CHUGGG: ROSé WE BEGAN S EBACK YEARS AGO, BUT WE ARE TAKG TO NEW LEVELS THIS SUMMER, PURCHASG BY THE SE—STILL AND SPARKLG—AND DRKG BY THE BOTTLE WHENEVER THE SUGGTN ARIS, A SORT OF GAY VERSN OF BROS ICG BROS. THERE IS A PLAN HERE. WE DON’T (JT) WANT TO GET DNK. WE WANT TO GET SO SICK OF THE LIC, LIGHT, MERALLY PK STUFF (OH, ’S JT SO PERFECT THE AFTERNOON, OR WH SOME GRILLED FISH, OR AFTER A SWIM THE LAKE) THAT WE WILL BE FORCED TO START A NEW ONEOPHILLIC TREND. I’M THKG ’S EHER GOG TO BE DRY WHE SANGRIA OR MERLOT SPRZERS.BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.BRETT BERK
• 'DID I EVER REALLY KNOW HIM?': THE WOMEN WHO MARRIED GAY MEN
• WHEN GAY MEN (MIS)MARRY STRAIGHT WOMEN: BONNIE KAYE'S STORY
• GAY VS MERRY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?GAY | MERRY | SYNONYMS |GAY IS A SYNONYM OF MERRY.AS ADJECTIV THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY AND MERRYIS THAT GAY IS (DATED) WHILE MERRY IS JOLLY AND FULL OF HIGH SPIRS.AS A NOUN GAYIS (CHIEFLY| PLURAL OR ATTRIBUTIVE) A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY'' A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; ''SEE ALSO LBIAN OR GAY N BE THE NAME OF THE LETTER ⟨— ⟩, WHICH STANDS FOR THE SOUND , PMAN SHORTHAND.AS A VERB GAYIS .OTHER COMPARISONS: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?MERRYMAKG VS GAYGAYENGLISHPROPER NOUN(EN PROPER NOUN), ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY OM THE WORD GAY, "JOYFUL"; RARE TODAY.. ALSO A SHORTENED FORM OF GABRIEL, GAYLORD AND SIAR NAM, OR TRANSFERRED OM THE SURNAME.* 1992 , UNTO THE SONS , BALLANTE BOOKS 1993, ISBN 0804110336, PAGE 15- - - MY FATHER'S FATHER, GAETANO TALE ( WHOSE NAME I HERED AFTER MY BIRTH 1932, THE ANGLICIZED OM OF "GAY "), WAS AN ATYPILLY FEARLS TRAVELER,* 2004 , BAD DIRT , FOURTH ESTATE, ISBN 0007196911, PAGE 32"MR GAY BRAWLS. WHAT A NAME.""IT DIDN'T E TO MEAN WHAT MEANS NOW. PLENTY WERE NAMED GAY'. EVEN NEVADA. WAS OLD ' GAY PCH HAD A GAS STATN WNEMUC. NOBODY THOUGHT NOTH ABOUT AND HE RAISED A RAILROAD R OF KIDS.- - -ANAGRAMS*MERRY
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

HOW TO HAVE THE GAYT SUMMER EVERBY BRETT BERKJUNE 21, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAFTER 20 YEARS TOGETHER, MY BOYIEND ASKED ME TO GAY MARRY HIM THIS SUMMER. WELL, NOT REALLY. WE OFTEN PLAY THIS GAME OF WILL YOU GAY MARRY ME? WHERE ONE OF PROPOS TO THE OTHER SIMPLY TO ELIC A REJECTN. THIS YEAR, HE GOT TO ASK, AND I TOLD HIM I’D DO , BUT ONLY IF I ULD NVCE FERRARI TO LOAN A V-12 GT FOR THE DRIVE TO SOME LOL, LEGAL STATE SO AT LEAST I ULD GET AN ARTICLE OUT OF FOR MY GAY-R LUMN HERE AT VF. “NEVER MD,” HE SAID. “I DON’T KNOW WHY I WANTED TO GAY MARRY YOU THE FIRST PLACE.” BUT ANOTHER YEAR WHOUT MATRIMONY IS NOT GOG TO STOP OM HAVG THE GAYT SUMMER EVER. SO HONOR OF TODAY’S SOLSTICE AND THIS WEEK’S NYC GAY PRIDE FTIVI, I WOULD LIKE TO PRENT THIS PENDIUM OF FIVE PECIALLY FAGGOTY THGS WE WILL BE DOG DURG OVER THE NEXT THREE MONTHS. SCE WE HOMOSEXUALS ARE STYLE LEARS, YOU ALL WILL BE DOG THE THGS THE NEXT FIVE TO TEN YEARS, SO DON’T LGH TOO HARD.MOSS GARNG: OUR HOE UPSTATE, WHERE WE’LL BE SPENDG THE SUMMER, IS NTLED A GROVE OF TALL, SUN-BLOCKG, AND SOIL-ACIDIFYG 100-YEAR-OLD WHE PE TRE. THE TRE ARE WILY REPUTED, BY LOL RINTS, TO BE GOOD FOR NOTHG. BUT THAT’S NOT TE. THEY’RE GREAT FOR PROVIDG VER FOR THE GROWTH OF ALKALE-LOVG MOSS. OF URSE, BEG ENMIC BREERS, OTHER PLANTS LIKE TO SEND THEIR SEEDLGS AND TRAILG ROOTS UP THROUGH THE FUZZY GREEN STUFF, SO ORR TO VELOP—AND ENURAGE FURTHER GROWTH OF—THE GEO RPET YOU SEE HERE, WE HAVE TO SPEND UNTLS HOURS CROUCHED DOWN ON THE GROUND PICKG EVERY OTHER LIVG SPROUT OUT OF OUR MOSS BY S ROOTS. OUR NEIGHBORS THK WE ARE LLECTG ANTS OR WORMS. (THEY ALSO THK WE ARE SANE AND SHOULD JT GET A LAWN.)DRARIUM CONSTCTN: WE HAVE BEEN OBSSED WH MIATURE DRAMAS FOR YEARS NOW—WHO HASN’T? WE’VE PURCHASED LARGE ETANDG ON, SMALL ON ENSED LUCE BOX, AND EVEN ONE THAT FORMS THE BASE OF A LAMP, ALL FEATURG DIVERSE SCEN OF WILDLIFE, GEOLOGIL FORMATNS, AND R WRECKS. BUT A FEW YEARS BACK WE NSTCTED ONE OUT THE YARD WH ONE OF OUR NEPHEWS THAT WAS MORE OF A “LIVG” DRAMA, WH SMALL PLANTS AND CLUMPS OF MOSS CLTERED AROUND A SCENE OF AN DTRIAL WASTELAND (PLETE WH A MIATURE BURNG TRASH BARREL). THIS GAVE THE IA OF CRAFTG SMALL, SELF-NTAED TABLEX VTAGE VR, EACH OF WHICH WOULD FEATURE AN TRIGUG LOTN, ADORABLE BUILDGS, AND LIVE FOLIAGE. OUR THOUGHTS TH FAR: DRIVE-IN MOVIE, FRONTIER VILLAGE, AND HNTED SUMMER CAMP (WH SLASHER’S LAIR/BODY P).MOST POPULARJIMMY AND ROSALYNN CARTER ENTERG “FAL DAYS” HEALTH UPDATEBY JACK MCCORDICK25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISRUDY GIULIANI: I HAVE “SCIENTIFIC EVINCE” THE 2020 ELECTN WAS STOLEN FROM DONALD TMPBY BS LEVPICKLG: I HAVE LONG WANTED TO MAKE PICKL, BUT MY BF AND BFF PUT THE KIBOSH ON . “YOU ARE GAY ENOUGH ALREADY,” THEY TOLD ME. BUT TURNS OUT THEY WERE JT TEMPORARILY OPPOSED, BASED ON MY THEN-TENSE FATUATN WH ONLE CTNS OF A CERTA PATTERN OF 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH TRANSFERWARE (RIDGWAYS PERSIA, IF YOU MT KNOW). SCE THAT HAS E TO AN END (PRETTY MUCH, I STILL BID ON THE OCSNAL PIECE; DON’T TELL THEM!), I’M APPARENTLY NOW ALLOWED TO DULGE THE VEGARED ALCHEMIL ARTS. I WANT TO START WH RADISH AND STRG BEANS. “FE,” THEY SAY. “BUT JT SO YOU DON’T GET ANY IAS, YOU NNOT START MAKG HOMEMA JAM!”MOST POPULARJIMMY AND ROSALYNN CARTER ENTERG “FAL DAYS” HEALTH UPDATEBY JACK MCCORDICK25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISRUDY GIULIANI: I HAVE “SCIENTIFIC EVINCE” THE 2020 ELECTN WAS STOLEN FROM DONALD TMPBY BS LEVROSE TRELLISG: ONE DAY A FEW YEARS BACK, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WOULDN’T BE OL TO BUILD SOMETHG? BUT LACKG ANY TOOLS, MATERIALS, SKILLS, SPATIAL-RELATNS TELLIGENCE, OR PLAN, THIS IS WHAT I CREATED: A WOBBLY TRELLIS FOR A WEIRD WILD ROSE BH THAT WAS GROWG THE ONT YARD. (THIS WAS BEFORE DEEPWATER HORIZON, BUT AFTER THERE WILL BE BLOOD, THOUGH NO OIL WELL REFERENCE WAS TEND.) NOW, TWO YEARS LATER, AFTER SCPULO PNG AND GUIDANCE, WE HAVE THIS BREATHTAKG DISPLAY. THE OTHER DAY, I TOLD MY BOYIEND I WANT TO EXPAND THIS STICK NSTCTN—WHICH I LIKE TO THK OF AS A PURE EXAMPLE OF THE ARTS-AND-CRAPS ATHETIC—TO A LOGGIA UNR WHICH WE N PLACE A TABLE. “THAT,” HE SAID, “IS A DISGTG IA.”ROSé CHUGGG: ROSé WE BEGAN S EBACK YEARS AGO, BUT WE ARE TAKG TO NEW LEVELS THIS SUMMER, PURCHASG BY THE SE—STILL AND SPARKLG—AND DRKG BY THE BOTTLE WHENEVER THE SUGGTN ARIS, A SORT OF GAY VERSN OF BROS ICG BROS. THERE IS A PLAN HERE. WE DON’T (JT) WANT TO GET DNK. WE WANT TO GET SO SICK OF THE LIC, LIGHT, MERALLY PK STUFF (OH, ’S JT SO PERFECT THE AFTERNOON, OR WH SOME GRILLED FISH, OR AFTER A SWIM THE LAKE) THAT WE WILL BE FORCED TO START A NEW ONEOPHILLIC TREND. I’M THKG ’S EHER GOG TO BE DRY WHE SANGRIA OR MERLOT SPRZERS.BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.BRETT BERK

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'DID I EVER REALLY KNOW HIM?': THE WOMEN WHO MARRIED GAY MEN

” But another year whout matrimony is not gog to stop om havg the Gayt Summer Ever. So honor of today’s solstice and this week’s NYC Gay PRIDE ftivi, I would like to prent this pendium of five pecially faggoty thgs we will be dog durg over the next three months. Sce we homosexuals are style lears, you all will be dog the thgs the next five to ten years, so don’t lgh too Garng: Our hoe upstate, where we’ll be spendg the summer, is ntled a grove of tall, sun-blockg, and soil-acidifyg 100-year-old whe pe tre.

WHEN GAY MEN (MIS)MARRY STRAIGHT WOMEN: BONNIE KAYE'S STORY

Megan Holgate uldn’t que believe where she was the height of the Aids crisis and she was the wag room of an ner-cy STI clic, equented by those most at risk of HIV: gay men, jectg dg ers, sex, as she had been, a monogamo married had felt “too ashamed” to ask her doctor for the HIV tt. A posive rult, back then, would have been a ath the clic a iendly gay unsellor asked Megan to step to his room and asked her if everythg was OK.

GAY VS MERRY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?GAY | MERRY | SYNONYMS |GAY IS A SYNONYM OF MERRY.AS ADJECTIV THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY AND MERRYIS THAT GAY IS (DATED) WHILE MERRY IS JOLLY AND FULL OF HIGH SPIRS.AS A NOUN GAYIS (CHIEFLY| PLURAL OR ATTRIBUTIVE) A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY'' A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; ''SEE ALSO LBIAN OR GAY N BE THE NAME OF THE LETTER ⟨— ⟩, WHICH STANDS FOR THE SOUND , PMAN SHORTHAND.AS A VERB GAYIS .OTHER COMPARISONS: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?MERRYMAKG VS GAYGAYENGLISHPROPER NOUN(EN PROPER NOUN), ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY OM THE WORD GAY, "JOYFUL"; RARE TODAY.. ALSO A SHORTENED FORM OF GABRIEL, GAYLORD AND SIAR NAM, OR TRANSFERRED OM THE SURNAME.* 1992 , UNTO THE SONS , BALLANTE BOOKS 1993, ISBN 0804110336, PAGE 15- - - MY FATHER'S FATHER, GAETANO TALE ( WHOSE NAME I HERED AFTER MY BIRTH 1932, THE ANGLICIZED OM OF "GAY "), WAS AN ATYPILLY FEARLS TRAVELER,* 2004 , BAD DIRT , FOURTH ESTATE, ISBN 0007196911, PAGE 32"MR GAY BRAWLS. WHAT A NAME.""IT DIDN'T E TO MEAN WHAT MEANS NOW. PLENTY WERE NAMED GAY'. EVEN NEVADA. WAS OLD ' GAY PCH HAD A GAS STATN WNEMUC. NOBODY THOUGHT NOTH ABOUT AND HE RAISED A RAILROAD R OF KIDS.- - -ANAGRAMS*MERRY

“This poor gay guy was the target for all my built-up anger. As her dad pulled up she opened her purse, fat wh not, and phed them all to the bewilred man’s hands before beg whisked is one of a potentially dyg breed of women: those who married closeted gay men.

“Some women ntact the service before their hband is even aware they know he’s gay, ” she says. Never once did she spect he was gay.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

I’m not gay but really nfed and I thk I need you to move back to Atralia so I n work myself out.

Lucy, now 24, hid at school the fact her dad was gay. I don’t believe bisexualy, I thk he was gay, ” she says.

“When you love someone and you know you’re gay, you don’t marry them. And many of the men, embolned by the sense of eedom and h excement afford them by disverg the gay scene, pletely scrib the impact had on her children. “My sons’ iends would e over and ask, is your dad gay?