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Contents:
- IS IT GAY HBAND? LBIAN WIFE? OR WHAT?
- HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY
- HOW TO HAVE A GAY OR LBIAN RELATNSHIP
- UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
IS IT GAY HBAND? LBIAN WIFE? OR WHAT?
Follow a gay uple’s lead as to how to refer to one spoe. And when doubt, “partner” ually satisfi everyone. * gay female partner *
Boomg|Is It Gay Hband? 27, 2012Every other Tuday, Steven Petrow, the thor of “Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay & Lbian Manners, ” (Workman, 2011), addrs qutns about gay and straight etiquette for a boomer-age dience. " I am a straight man my 50s, and most same-sex upl of my age group e “partner” to refer to each other although younger gay male iends speak of their “hbands” wh lbian upl routely g “wife.
HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY
* gay female partner *
Given today’s crazy-quilt mix of state marriage laws (ma even more so by the Electn Day victori for gay weddgs), ’s no wonr you are nfed about how to refer to our signifint others. The other day I heard about a recently married gay man who mentned his “hband” passg to a woman of a certa age (meang ours!
It’s tertg to me that you rrectly intify the generatnal difference among your gay, lbian and bisexual iends (two snaps for payg attentn! ) and I’ll bet you’re likely to rell when other terms were vogue — “longtime pann” was obuary for “gay” – and back the day the sexually suggtive “lover” was the mon moniker for many a practil level what I suggt dog is listeng to how a uple troduc or refers to each other. For stance, I recently overheard a gay iend a long-term relatnship refer to his better half as his “spoe” only to hear one of the straight folks ask him mut later what kd of work his “iend” did.
HOW TO HAVE A GAY OR LBIAN RELATNSHIP
Rourc for stunts and psychologists to ga a better unrstandg of issu that may affect the straight spoe when a wife or hband out as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. * gay female partner *
I’d love to see Endora st a spell on Congrs and get to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which prohibs Feral regnn of gay and lbian weddgs (and ni more than 1, 100 benefs like Social Secury for survivg spo or hospal visatn rights).
If you need advice about gay/straight suatns or issu (geared to a boomer-aged dience), send them to Mr.
UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
Then you disver that your spoe or partner is, fact, gay. How to Regnize Your Spoe Is Gay.
Unls your spoe shar their sexual orientatn wh you, there is no way to know for sure if they are gay. You notice pop-ups of gay pornography or gay datg s on their vic. You notice a new group of iends on their social media, many of whom are openly gay.