Does Marriage Make The Gays Boring?

[xchrom]

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-11-16/columns/does-marriage-make-the-gays-boring/

I can be in the military in Afghanistan and get married in New York! Two things I never wanted for myself! And are those really two separate things anyway?



Naturally, I'm delighted that those opportunities are available to my peers, since achieving rights for all is the biggest "duh" since free popcorn at premieres. But do I have to claim them—and more importantly, is something in the LGBT culture lost as so much important stuff is gained on the way to the beautifully appointed table?

I posed that question to three major playwrights represented in Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, a staged reading of shorts at the Minetta Lane Theatre, which last week was simultaneously performed all over the country in order to make a powerful statement about equality. And they agreed!

"I do worry about that," Doug Wright (Pulitzer winner for I Am My Own Wife) admitted to me. "We serve such a valuable function as critics of the culture and satirists, engaging in the kind of truth-telling that is a particular function only marginal people earn in an honest way, and I do worry that we've lost some of our innate subversiveness.

[WillParkinson]

1. Wouldn't know...

I've always been boring.

K & R

[xchrom]

2. i used to tear it up in my youth...not so much any more. nt

[HillWilliam]

3. Us, too

I had to laugh because that graphic in the OP is *so* us... once wild young turks in leather, now two middle-aged guys with dogs and a home out in the sticks.

Even after almost 16 years of unwedded bliss, we still have wonderfully dirty minds. Does that count? :rofl:

[xchrom]

5. you're never too old to be Subversive.

i think you get double Gay Coupon Points for being Subversive the older you get.

it's in the fine print.

[HillWilliam]

6. At this stage of the game I have to ask

are those double-coupon points good at HT? Do I have to wait for Double Coupon Friday?

Hey, I've waited a long time to become a Durdy Ole Man :rofl:

[xchrom]

7. Gay Day at the HT!

you know for the longest time -- i had no idea what a Harris Teeter was.

i was like 'harris teeter, wtf?'

[HillWilliam]

10. Two things:

HT is the one reason we don't have Publix in NC (I asked some folks inside corporate at Publix)...

and... (wait for it)

Yeah, I've called HT "hairy peter" since I was 12. In this house, we still do LOL

[xchrom]

12. ...

:spray: read that as a Gay Gasp & Screech.

[William769]

4. I don't know.

But I should have the freedom to find out for myself.

Recommended.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. i want boring. i was exciting when it was age appropriate

now, i just want boring.

[intheflow]

9. We can only hope so!

Be nice to be so boring Repukes and fundamental Christians no longer care about what happens in your bedroom.

[NMMNG]

11. Marriage didn't make me boring

I was always that way. :shrug:

[Rowdyboy]

13. We've been together 22 years now....When we marry,if I get MORE boring.....

we're in serious, serious trouble