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Written by mike
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Monday, 25 August 2008 02:28 |
Oh, the humanity. Are gay singles really cancerous?
Reading the Times' Modern Love column garners the same amount of schadenfreude as watching A&E's Intervention: craggy divorce stories, against-the-odds prison romances, passionate assisted-living hook-ups and childhood lost loves all dusted with saccharine and the occasional Beatles lyric.
This week it's Times columnist and resident homosexual Bob Morris on
how he didn't really want to get married when his boyfriend asked, but then, mysteriously, did.
For years, Ira and I had mocked the idea that gay people wanted to get
in on something we associated with an expensive party and useless gifts
from Williams-Sonoma. How did gay liberation become marriage
fetishization?
What causes the change of heart? Morris saw Sex and the City: The Golden Years ...
alone. By the time his friend tells him that being "gay and single is
becoming the new smoking," he's already packed his bags for California
and renounced his hesitation about the Gay Marriage-Industrial Complex.
Being gay and single, the Times tells us in its abstract, "is the new unheard of."
Reader, he married him. We hadn't connected the stunning debut of SATC
with the rebirth of gay marriage in California, but now in a weird Jane
Eyre-y way, the nonsensical has started to make sense. Pass us the lighter.
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