Should Gay Marriage Be Legal? 6 Pros and Cons

Contents:

• 'WHAT WOULD YOU DO?' REP: MARRIED MAN CHEATS WH GAY LOVER, BLACK CTOMER PROFILED HIGH-END STORE
• HOW TO INTRODUCE A MARRIED GAY COUPLE
• DERS DEFEND GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL STAGED BY 'WHAT WOULD YOU DO?'
• MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER
• WAER HARASSG GAY PARENTS: WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
• GAY COUPL CAN TEACH STRAIGHT PEOPLE A THG OR TWO ABOUT ARGUG
• 22 BT GAY WEDDG GIFTS FOR YOUR TWO FAVORE GROOMS (2023)
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

'WHAT WOULD YOU DO?' REP: MARRIED MAN CHEATS WH GAY LOVER, BLACK CTOMER PROFILED HIGH-END STORE

What would you do if you jt found out your new neighbor is a gay uple? So say you jt bought a new hoe and moved your fay , then you get a knock at the door and ’s the uple next door wh a hoewarmg gift, but they are a gay uple.

“Two gay men livg a farm ral Portugal – not a problem. Watch what happens:While studyg for fals at a lol rtrant, two male stunts beg to prsure their female iend to abg Would You Do: Married Man Has Affair Wh Gay Lover While on Date Wh His WifeA married uple is havg lunch, celebratg their anniversary.

Watch what happens:A hband's gay lover shows up unexpectedly while on his anniversary lunch wh his Would You Do: Parents Disapprove of Dghter's Boyiend Who Us a WheelchairA woman’s parents are visg om out of town and she is ready to troduce them to the man she has been datg for months.

HOW TO INTRODUCE A MARRIED GAY COUPLE

Like heterosexuals, many lbian, gay, and bisexual people want to form stable, long-lastg relatnships and many of them do. In fact, rearchers have found that the majory of lbian, and gay, adults are mted relatnships and many upl have been together 10 or more years. Empiril rearch also shows that lbian and gay upl have levels of relatnship satisfactn siar to or higher than those of heterosexual upl.

How do laws that lim marriage to heterosexuals affect gay and lbian people? The fai and iends of lbian and gay upl who are nied marriage rights may also experience negative physil and mental health nsequenc siar to those experienced by their loved on. The vast majory of scientific studi that have directly pared lbian and gay parents wh heterosexual parents have nsistently shown that the same-sex upl are as f and pable parents as heterosexual upl, and that their children are jt as psychologilly healthy and well adjted.

DERS DEFEND GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL STAGED BY 'WHAT WOULD YOU DO?'

24, 2013Every 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.

Send qutns for Civil Behavr to Dear Civil Behavr: I’m a sergeant the Army, and my girliend and I are to meet wh a married gay uple (he’s an officer). ” This year, thanks to the Supreme Court’s double punch June — guttg the feral Defense of Marriage Act and dismissg California’s Prop 8 — the floodgat have opened and gay upl are shg to take advantage of this momento time.

MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

’ ”Ined, etiquette n sometim seem like a strajacket (“do this, not that”), but also sets out protol, as this suatn, that simply mak for fewer missteps or fx that said, I know om iends and my own recent marriage that changg monikers tak some gettg ed to — by both gays and straights.

For stutns still adaptg to openly gay service members, the chang etiquette mt seem head-spng ed.

WAER HARASSG GAY PARENTS: WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

More than a dozen New York rtrant ctomers stepped up to fend a gay uple facg harassment by a man opposed to same-sex marriage.

What they didn't know was that the uple and the gay marriage opponent were actors hired by " What Would You Do? While gay marriage ntu to be a hot-button issue the U. Printial race, lawmakers New York state legalized gay marriage last June.

GAY COUPL CAN TEACH STRAIGHT PEOPLE A THG OR TWO ABOUT ARGUG

New York is the sixth and largt state to date to adopt gay marriage, and Washgton state is poised to bee the seventh. A third actor, Vce, plays the gay marriage opponent, loudly voicg his disapproval. Come to the fense of the gay uple and their small children?

We cid to put Ameri's fort level wh gay parents to the tt and set out for a der Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, N. Brian Sheridan played our homophobic waer. Members of, an anizatn by and for people wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer parents, joed the ntrol first, no one seemed to notice our waer's csant qutng -- even when he got more sultg and outspoken.

22 BT GAY WEDDG GIFTS FOR YOUR TWO FAVORE GROOMS (2023)

" the man volunteered to our homophobic waer. "As our hidn meras rolled aga, patrons noticed Brian's homophobic tira but no one seemed to e to the aid of our gay fay.

We swapped actors -- om lbians to gay dads to see if would elic some rponse.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

When the waer fally stepped away, Randi and Kev both offered their support to our gay uple -- tellg them they'd "never seen anythg like their life. "Randi add that they are acceptg of all people and asked Brian not to talk to ABC's John Quon walked wh a mera crew, Kev told him angered him to his the day wore on, several other ders me to our gay fay's fense -- mandg that Brian stop discrimatg agast what would happen if our lbian moms went om lipstick to flannel -- wh one mom drsed a tie and jacket?

Many gay upl say that mascule drs triggers even more tolerance.

Or a way to addrs nflict that is specific to gay men? While there is not much rearch to draw om, the studi that do exist suggt that, on average, same-sex upl rolve nflict more nstctively than different-sex upl, and wh ls are always exceptns, and even the healthit of gay upl are not ntually baskg a rabow-hued utopia. They have problems jt like everyone they did not, “I’d be out of bs, ” said Rick Miller, a psychotherapist Boston who works wh gay and straight upl.