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Navigatg the social grac of our ever-changg society n be tricky, and perhaps trickier for gays and lbians. Many wonr how to rpond to offensive jok or how to addrs a letter to a married gay uple.

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Steven Petrow giv answers his new book Steven Petrow's Complete Gay and Lbian Manners.

How do I addrs a salutatn to a gay uple? Steven Petrow has the answers and he's the go-to thory on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr issu.

He wr the natnally syndited advice lumn Queeri, and his latt book is lled "Steven Petrow's Complete Gay and Lbian Manners. Why is there a need for a marriage book, specifilly for the gay and lbian populatn?

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PETROW: Part of the answer is that I've been dog an advice lumns for many years now, and three years ago I started gettg jt a ton of qutns, both om gay people and om straight people about all the dilemmas sort of our social teractns and, you know, they're also all of the same sex weddg qutns.

LYDEN: So a lot of is about basilly mon cency, and then you're sayg there are the other thgs that do specifilly apply to the gay muny. You know, for stance, how do you troduce the signifint other of your bt gay iend?

LYDEN: Steven, you wrote a siar book lled "The Essential Book of Gay Manners and Etiquette" 1995. PETROW: You know, actually shocked me when I started to thk back that, really, 16 years here is like 1, 600 gay years or somethg like that, bee thk back, 1995, 1996, that was before onle datg.