As New York gay and lbian upl prepare to sh for marriage licens, the cy may be unprepared for genr qutns.
Contents:
- HOW TO ADDRS A MARRIED GAY COUPLE WH THE SAME LAST NAME
- HOW TO INTRODUCE A MARRIED GAY COUPLE
- GAY MARRIAGE QUANDARY: AM I THE BRI OR GROOM?
- WHAT DO IT MEAN WHEN A GAY SON TAK HIS HBAND’S SURNAME?
HOW TO ADDRS A MARRIED GAY COUPLE WH THE SAME LAST NAME
An Army sergeant asks how to troduce his girliend to a married gay uple, one of whom is an officer. * how do gay couples decide last name *
Feel ee to apply the l when you’re referrg to a married gay uple on thgs like weddg vatns, holiday rds, and letters. Addrs each member of a male married gay uple as “Mr. All the l for addrsg a married gay uple wh the same last name apply whether they have chosen to e 1 last name or to e a hyphenated versn of both their last nam.
There are general l you n follow, but not every gay uple has the same preference, so they might appreciate if you ask. Addrs each member of a female married gay uple as “Mrs. This uld apply anytime you're vg a married gay person you know to some kd of formal event and you're vg they're partner as a "pl 1.
There are no l set stone about whose name you have to put first when you’re addrsg a gay uple. For example, one member of a gay married uple might intify as more feme and would th prefer to be lled Mrs. Many gay men do intify themselv as strictly a top (the giver) or a bottom (the receiver) anal sex, but to say that a feme guy is almost always a bottom and a mascule guy is almost always a top is jt pla wrong.
HOW TO INTRODUCE A MARRIED GAY COUPLE
* how do gay couples decide last name *
Any gay person will tell you that if you want to be sure a guy is a top or a bottom you had better ask them and not wa until you get to the bedroom, bee 's not unmon to fd a butch guy who only wants to bottom OR a waify queen who ref to let anythg near his butt. As I said, most gay men who only prefer one role will actively seek out ONLY men who prefer the other- so they already know who will be dog what. A majory of gay men are what you ll 'versatile, ' which means they n/will be the giver or the receiver durg anal sex.
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.
GAY MARRIAGE QUANDARY: AM I THE BRI OR GROOM?
’ ”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. When 2 gay people marry how do they ci on their 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. How typil is for one partner to take the other's surname a gay marriage? In Alabama, explas Andy Page, who grew up near Birmgham and hop to someday adopt a child wh his hband Lee Hawk, a gay uple nnot adopt jotly, so they mt choose one person to be the adoptive parent.
"A lot of LGB [lbian, gay, and bisexual] upl reject the ia of changg their nam bee of the sense that the name-changg practice has roots a genred, sexist marriage stutn which women lerally beme their hband's legal property and lost their inty unr the law, " explas Boso, whose rearch foc on law and personal inty, and who has cid agast takg his hband's last name due to the publitns he already has unr his own.
WHAT DO IT MEAN WHEN A GAY SON TAK HIS HBAND’S SURNAME?
Eded for homophobic ments, there is no place here for that.