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Love & Marriage -- the Reunion Tour
13 years ago
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dotter at
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So yeah, after all these years together, Sheila Ann Lacy and Sandi (Sandra) Carter are making it official: they're getting married. First of all, I'm very happy for them.
The story spreads outwards from the couple to look at the reactions to a gay, interspecies marriage: support from their friends, opposition, some of it rabid, from their families, and near-mindless curiosity from the media, in a never-ending search for infotainment. The reactions are writ large -- the women are, after all, one of New York City's most famous power couples -- but it's hard not to feel that I have a stake in this story's outcome, too.
I'm in favor of marriage equality. I don't pretend to have any deep political thoughts on the issue, but marrying someone of my own gender is an option I'd like to take someday. To show him I love him enough to put a ring on it. To stop using all those awkward linguistic substitutes for "my husband." To be out -- truly out, finally. And then there's all that legal stuff that makes signing forms easier.
Anyway, D'Otter wrote a terrific story. You should check it out at the link above.
dotter athttp://www.furaffinity.net/view/9921977/
So yeah, after all these years together, Sheila Ann Lacy and Sandi (Sandra) Carter are making it official: they're getting married. First of all, I'm very happy for them.
The story spreads outwards from the couple to look at the reactions to a gay, interspecies marriage: support from their friends, opposition, some of it rabid, from their families, and near-mindless curiosity from the media, in a never-ending search for infotainment. The reactions are writ large -- the women are, after all, one of New York City's most famous power couples -- but it's hard not to feel that I have a stake in this story's outcome, too.
I'm in favor of marriage equality. I don't pretend to have any deep political thoughts on the issue, but marrying someone of my own gender is an option I'd like to take someday. To show him I love him enough to put a ring on it. To stop using all those awkward linguistic substitutes for "my husband." To be out -- truly out, finally. And then there's all that legal stuff that makes signing forms easier.
Anyway, D'Otter wrote a terrific story. You should check it out at the link above.
If it were up to me, I'd take marriage out of government hands. Then anybody could marry anyone they pleased on any terms they felt appropriate and anybody else could agree that there's a marriage there or disagree or go jump in the lake! I mean, all that really matters is that two people... or why not more if it suits them... decide to devote the rest of their lives to each other. As for tax schemes and survivor benefits and so on, why do you have to be married to be somebody's dependent or to share a household? Your will can bequeath your property to whomever you wish when you're dead, so why not live that way, too? I'm sure we could work out the details if we wanted this. We've gender-neutralized language, as any fire fighter who's ever rescued a letter carrier who fell down an open sewer hole can tell you. We can de-institutionalize marriage. I might be bisexual, but I'm too old to get married now. But if I ever do, it won't matter to me if my husband is male or female, only that I love them. If anybody else cares, I think I'll direct them to the lake.