Jul 21, 2008
Story Timeline: 81 days
Courtney has an awesome column up at the TAP -- one that really resonates with me -- about how seeing her queer friends excited at the prospect of getting hitched has caused her to reexamine her own views on marriage. I've spent more time than I'd like to remember in the past three or four years explaining to family, friends, and perfect strangers why I'm not dying to walk down the aisle (note: he has spent at least half as much time doing so, an incredibly irritating discrepancy). Usually my answer goes something like this: 1) I don't want to participate in an institution that's been historically sexist and currently discriminates against my gay friends, especially considering that my partner and I couldn't have been married in some states just 40 years ago (we're miscegenators), and 2) I'm uncomfortable with the "till death...
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