[The Defense of Marriage Act was stck down June 2013, a cisn that allowed cizens of the Uned Stat to marry the person they love regardls of their sexual orientatn. It was an excg day for gay upl who had been hopg to legally tie-the-knot (and an excg day for everyone who believ #loveislove), and we're celebratg wh a pri-filled celebry weddg roundup.]" emprop="scriptn
Contents:
- HOW TO ADDRS A MARRIED GAY COUPLE WH THE SAME LAST NAME
- HOW TO INTRODUCE A MARRIED GAY COUPLE
- GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
- ADDRS A MARRIED GAY COUPLE WH THE SAME LAST NAME
- WHAT DO IT MEAN WHEN A GAY SON TAK HIS HBAND’S SURNAME?
- A SYMBOL OF MARRIAGE: GAY UPL TAKE ON PARTNER'S LAST NAME
HOW TO ADDRS A MARRIED GAY COUPLE WH THE SAME LAST NAME
If you believe livg and lettg live, ’s not always easy to listen to social nservativ go on about the social chaos that gay marriage will... * gay couple same 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.
HOW TO INTRODUCE A MARRIED GAY COUPLE
An Army sergeant asks how to troduce his girliend to a married gay uple, one of whom is an officer. * gay couple same name *
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.
GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS
A supposed requt for a webse for a same-sex weddg played a mor role a major clash between ee speech and gay rights at the Supreme Court. * gay couple same name *
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. If you believe livg and lettg live, ’s not always easy to listen to social nservativ go on about the social chaos that gay marriage will likely kdle across the land.
But ’s time for all Amerins—even those who are gay and married, like me—to adm : The gloom and doom pourg forth om the anti-equaly right do, fact, nta a kernel of tth.
No, the problem is that an crease gay marriage evably means more upl of a prevly rare sort: two spo, one first name. Until a better suggtn appears the ments, I’ll dub “homonymo marriage. Perhaps you’re not immediately nvced homonymo marriage will brg the republic to s kne.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
Parents of a gay son who will be marryg his boyiend are thrilled by the marriage, but ls so that their son is droppg their last name. * gay couple same name *
Well, remember Steel Magnolias, when Olympia Dakis remarked that all gay men are named “Mark, Rick, or Steve? The simplt type of homonymic nfn occurs at large gathergs: parti, dners, or barbecu. Physil characteristics are an obv port the homonymo storm.
ADDRS A MARRIED GAY COUPLE WH THE SAME LAST NAME
Holidays, and the ter-fay gathergs they ocsn, pose particular hardships to homonymo upl.
WHAT DO IT MEAN WHEN A GAY SON TAK HIS HBAND’S SURNAME?
It’s stori like this—homonymo marriage sowg fay disrd, good Christian nam doubly filed (around the Christmas tree, no ls)—that may jtify the anti-equaly fervor of social nservativ. If fay gathergs are tough, out-and-proud homonymy even more trouble wh strangers.
” Then, fearg their misunrstandg reveals homophobia (or worse, an overfaiary wh Steel Magnolias), they get apologetic. I thought Mark and I had bad until I spoke wh Jon Pl Buchmeyer, a wrer and a member of a particularly ele tranche of homonymo upl: those who have the same name different languag. Of urse, homonymo relatnships have advantag, too.
Brightly pots out that homonymy simplifi as many suatns as plit. Her , after meetg Mark and me at an Anglo-Amerin Thanksgivg London, asked his parents whether, if he disvered he was gay, he too would have to fd a partner wh the same name. Such flickers of sweetns and light make me wonr if there isn’t some way to enurage nervo nservativ to embrace all gay upl—not jt those wh different first nam.
A SYMBOL OF MARRIAGE: GAY UPL TAKE ON PARTNER'S LAST NAME
It’s worth potg out that oppose-sex upl, too, n be homonymo. And given the vogue for genr-ambiguo baby nam, there’s plenty more homonymy the pipele: Thk of all the Rileys, Jordans, and Harpers yet to meet. A more effective tactic might be to remd nservativ that the gay-rights movement is only the outermost ripple of the Amerin experiment’s historic, ever-expandg promise of eedom.
Lda Hirshman, her recent history of the gay rights movement, not that Evans found particular spiratn the fathers of the Amerin Revolutn and nstutn. 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.