First Person Singular by Wendy Braitman

filed in Happy Ever After

Celebrating the Right to Marry (Or Not)

July 21, 2011 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Before marriage equality was a gleam in anyone’s eye, I took it for granted that my gay brothers and sisters would keep me company, forever, on the single path. But, I was wrong about that. And like my straight friends, most of the gay ones are coupled off, too. A few days ago, I received a lovely invitation in the mail to a same-sex engagement party, thrown at the prospective groom’s parents’ house. How gloriously far we’ve come, even if it gets a little lonely.

Image: Wedding Season, The New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt

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