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?
- A SYMBOL OF MARRIAGE: GAY UPL TAKE ON PARTNER'S LAST NAME
- CHANGG YOUR NAME AFTER MARRIAGE WHEN YOU’RE GAY
WHAT DO IT MEAN WHEN A GAY SON TAK HIS HBAND’S SURNAME?
* gay couples 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. 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 SYMBOL OF MARRIAGE: GAY UPL TAKE ON PARTNER'S LAST NAME
While hazg the lennials durg a meetg today, several of them nfsed to not knowg the basic lexin of gay slanguage. This is for them and everyone else who needs a reher. * gay couples name change *
"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.
CHANGG YOUR NAME AFTER MARRIAGE WHEN YOU’RE GAY
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. 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.
Sce is nsired tradnal to change a last name durg the marriage procs, some gay and lbian upl want to participate this aspect. For some gay and lbian upl, rporatg a name change after marriage volv the emotnal issu of fay intifitn, mment, and love. · “I thk the son is celebratg the fact that he has this optn, which was not available to gay people before now.
”· “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.