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.
Contents:
- WHAT DO IT MEAN WHEN A GAY SON TAK HIS HBAND’S SURNAME?
- GAY MARRIAGE
- CHANGG YOUR NAME AFTER A SAME-SEX (GAY) MARRIAGE.
WHAT DO IT MEAN WHEN A GAY SON TAK HIS HBAND’S SURNAME?
* gay marriage last name change *
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. · “I thk the son is celebratg the fact that he has this optn, which was not available to gay people before now.
GAY MARRIAGE
”· “For gay upl, choosg one name or the other n have ls to do wh the ‘dynamics’ of the relatnship than who has a ‘better name, but outsirs’ worryg/wonrg about this says a lot about existg sex-role stereotyp. I emailed Andrew Solomon, the thor of the acclaimed “Far From the Tree, ” and hband of John Habich Solomon, for his take on John’s name change:“We felt that the same way that ’s radil for heterosexual women to refe to change their nam, ditg that they haven’t been subsumed to a new inty wh marriage, so is equally radil for gay people to change their nam; associat firmly wh the ia of fay, of permanence, of beg part of a many-generatns tradn of timacy. Proponents exist on both sis of the name-change issue, pecially wh the gay and lbian muny.
Gay and lbian upl nsirg changg their last nam face some of the same disrd that heterosexual upl experience.
CHANGG YOUR NAME AFTER A SAME-SEX (GAY) MARRIAGE.
This thought procs holds te even when a gay marriage is volved wh the dividual who choos the spoe’s name beg portrayed as the ls pennt of the two spo.