Results for: gay marriage
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Is Monogamy Cool Again?
Is the era of polyamory over? Are more queer people returning to monogamy? Or is it just a shift in the cultural conversation?
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You Need Help: Why Am I So Tempted to Cheat?
Cheating is a form of escape from our current situation; it allows us to momentarily be with someone else, maybe even be someone else, for a night. Honesty has consequences. Cheating, if we don’t get caught, does not.
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Six Queers on Polyamory and Identity
“Polyamory and queerness are pretty much inseparable for me in practice.”
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What I’m Saying Is You’re Stuck With Me
February 7th was our 14th dating anniversary and our 8th marriage anniversary. The truth is, I didn’t see myself married, in a house we own, with a child I carried, in a place in my life where I don’t want to move away or run off to the next tempting thing. I never thought I’d want stability, but here we are.
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Poly Pocket: If You Don’t Take Care Of Yourself, It Just Doesn’t Work
“I have a relationship to myself first. If that relationship isn’t solid and healthy I’m not good with anyone.”
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A+ Roundtable: What’s Your Relationship Kryptonite?
What types of relationship situations or people are you often drawn to even though you know they’re bad for you and will destroy you?
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Poly Pocket: Building Intentional Community and Relationship Anarchy
Here’s how a 33-year-old queer, polyamorous, white, trans woman living in Chicago who’s married and has a long-term girlfriend does poly.
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La India y La Negrx: Intentional, Radical Love in My Queer Interracial Relationship
“Love in partnership as colonized/racialized bodies is courageously undressing the walls we have built to survive and showing others the chaos that war has left behind.”
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Queer Crip Love Fest: The Two Great Loves of My Life
“There are people who, when I say I have a chronic illness and try to talk about it, will be like ‘Well, you’re just an adult now.’ I mean, yes, but also, this is real. It does keep me at home a lot. I do have a weakened immune system. I’m not making this up.”
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How to Keep a Girl for 10 Years: 5 Steps To A Better Y’all!
In my first installment of How To Keep A Girl For Ten Years, I explore the notion of solidarity through individualism, selflessness and creativity!
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Run Anyway: Real Talk About Abusive Lesbian Relationships
“The further away I got, the clearer it became. She had been my first serious girlfriend after a succession of boyfriends, and I was more in love than I had ever been before. But the relationship stretched and accommodated behavior I likely would have never taken from a man.”
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The Ethics of Lust: On Interracial Relationships and Anti-Miscegenation Laws
We discuss interracial couples and how the gay marriage movement could learn a thing of two from their struggles.
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Mind The (Age) Gap: How to Do a May/December Lesbian Relationship
May-December (or even May-October) romances can present occasional challenges, they can also be awesome.
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In the Pool With Cougar, Scaring the Straight People, Getting The Homophobia
Sometimes we are reminded we live in a heteronormative world in the unlikeliest of places.
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Look at Those F*cking Queers All In Love and Junk
Did you have a rough weekend / month / lunch break? Here are some sweet stories to help keep your chin up.