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THE GAY DIVORCEE

The Gay Divorcee: Directed by Mark Sandrich. Wh Fred Astaire, Gger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton. A woman thks a flirtg man is the -rponnt her lawyer has hired to expede her divorce." data-id="ma * the gay divorce *

The Gay Divorcée is the answer to the trivia qutn of which of Fred Astaire's and Gger Rogers's is one that Fred Astaire had prevly done on Broadway.

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Only The Gay Divorcée was he asked to repeat a stage basic plot is still the same, the ual Astaire-Rogers se of mistaken inty. It's what The Gay Divorcée is remembered for today.

CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE

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It's a rather long, between ten and fifteen mut of screen time, but as magil as everThe Gay Divorce ran for 248 performanc on Broadway durg the 1932- 1933 season. Even before The Co was place, seemed that the powers that be emed that his work was way too sophistited and nghty to be seen and heard as wh the film beg othy romance stead of social mentary, The Gay Divorcée is still great entertament.

Celebratg My (Gay) DivorceMarriage equaly means divorce equaly—and I feel pri, as well as sadns, about my spl om my WhmanEdor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Augt 25, 2013, I said “I do” to Jim, my partner of ne years, who beme my “lawfully wedd hband.

I didn’t want to be “gay married”; I wanted to be “married” like any other uple, thank you very much. Our divorce, I thk, did as much as to legimize marriage equaly as our more: How gay marriage beme a nstutnal rightLike so many other people of my generatn, I never thought I’d be able to marry “my hband” and “to love, re for, and support him, ” as we put our vows.

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As she explaed later, after other gay male upl town got hched, “I like to thk that my [male] iends who have hbands n fd a ty b of validatn hearg that term applied to their chosen one.

(I also didn’t want to be known as the “gay divorcé, ” as some of my iends began llg me. We did not—uld not—jt snap our fgers and erase our turned out, many of our iends—straight and gay—didn’t thk divorce laws applied to same-sex upl. Fred Hertz, a California-based lawyer specializg same-sex-fay law, told me: “What is really surprisg to many of my clients is there is no separate set of l for gay upl—nventnal heterosexual divorce law appli to all married upl, gay or straight.

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