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Much to my surprise, I can no longer say that I don't want to get married. I always thought that not having to get married was one of the benefits of being gay. I have never imagined living fully within the fabric of my society. The rebel in me resists giving up my outlaw status.
While the move toward nationwide equality is grand, it left many gays in military relationships in a possible matrimonial conundrum: What to wear to the wedding?
We have the freedom to be more creative in customizing each party. We can avoid the pockets of yawn that tend to occur with a generic wedding formula.
I am incredibly proud to congratulate Washington State Representative Pedersen and Senator Murray on the day Governor Gregoire signed the bill into law, and welcome them into the next stage of the fight for marriage equality.
After reading our vows, we were officially pronounced married by the State of New York. When I heard these words, I began to sob like an 8-year-old.
Two lesbians of African descent abandon fear for risk and decide to marry in New York City, breaking social taboo in Africa while making U.S. history. But did their struggle for equality pay off in their homeland?
I spoke with Kelebohile Nkhereanye and Renee Boyd about their decision to marry, its impact on their relationship as a lesbian couple of African extraction, and what their marriage, and marriage at large, mean to queer Africans on the continent and in the Diaspora.
Pop phenom Lada Gaga recently announced her plans to seek ministerial ordination so that she may marry her long-time friends, both of whom are women. The news stirred conflicting feelings for me.
In a rhetorical move evoking a Walt Whitman poem, she conjured up images of gay people all over the world. She then went on to state, "Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality." Actually, being gay is a Western invention.
Next April, as the cherry blossoms are flowering across the city, I will stand in front of my family and friends and make a public promise of lifetime fidelity and commitment to my partner of five years.
I find it somewhat infuriating that we could travel just a short distance to some Shangri-La where gay people can wed and crowds applaud in celebration, only to return home to file separate tax forms with "single" checked at the top of the form.
On the day that lesbian and gay New Yorkers could finally legally wed their life partners, a thought occurred to me that I hadn't considered before. At the over ripe age of 35, I was now a spinster.
You can overhear similar conversations in some churches, but not in others. Maybe we should start more of them.
On Friday, Aug. 5, John and I were at the New York City courthouse applying for our marriage license. What could have been just another item on our we...
Jumping the Broom was one of the best examples of blacks to buck the status quo in the pursuit of what was right. In legalizing same-sex marriage, New York State has also done the right thing and will allow many more to jump the broom into full equality.
Behold, beautiful and confused children of Earth: The smoke has cleared, the glitter bomb has settled and finally the world-famous "homosexual agenda" has, once and for all, screamed itself alive.
