Parents of a gay son who will be marryg his boyiend are thrilled by the marriage, but ls so that their son is droppg their last name.
Contents:
- WHAT DO IT MEAN WHEN A GAY SON TAK HIS HBAND’S SURNAME?
- A SYMBOL OF MARRIAGE: GAY UPL TAKE ON PARTNER'S LAST NAME
- GAY MARRIAGE
WHAT DO IT MEAN WHEN A GAY SON TAK HIS HBAND’S SURNAME?
* gay marriage last name *
But when genr norms go out the wdow, the cisn n take on a whole new level of plexy and year’s landmark Supreme Court lg, which legalized gay marriage around the untry, means same-sex upl will be facg the name-change qutn more than ever before.
· “I thk the son is celebratg the fact that he has this optn, which was not available to gay people before now. ”· “For gay upl, choosg one name or the other n have ls to do wh the ‘dynamics’ of the relatnship than who has a ‘better name, but outsirs’ worryg/wonrg about this says a lot about existg sex-role stereotyp.
I emailed Andrew Solomon, the thor of the acclaimed “Far From the Tree, ” and hband of John Habich Solomon, for his take on John’s name change:“We felt that the same way that ’s radil for heterosexual women to refe to change their nam, ditg that they haven’t been subsumed to a new inty wh marriage, so is equally radil for gay people to change their nam; associat firmly wh the ia of fay, of permanence, of beg part of a many-generatns tradn of timacy.
A SYMBOL OF MARRIAGE: GAY UPL TAKE ON PARTNER'S LAST NAME
In October 2008, racg agast California's gay marriage ban, Chloe and Frankie Frankeny wed legally San Francis wh one chore already done: Chloe had taken her wife's name two years before. "Wh a battle over the state's ban on gay marriage possibly head to the U.
GAY MARRIAGE
It's a symbol renred even stronger now that legal gay marriag are on hold California, and for partners who've never had the optn.