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As with trans people, the most socially acceptable way to be gay is for nothing, save the existence of your same-sex spouse, to betray your queerness.
Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
I wanted a cross between a therapist and a cowboy.
Heather Havrilesky • Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
Craig says that Erin used to “chase” him for sex at the beginning and made him “feel wanted,” but now he feels continuously rejected. To Craig, Erin’s lack of sex drive is a direct condemnation of his worth as a man.
Adam Smith • Exhausted Wives, Bewildered Husbands: Why your marriage is hurting, and how to blossom as a couple
But most serious of all, Judge Davies wrote, was that “Thompson and Sharon are a family of affinity, which ought to be accorded respect.”
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
When she called Kayla “fat and blundering,” I wasn’t sure if she was really talking about Kayla or about me. Sometimes I felt like she was laughing at me right to my face, like she and herself had become the “us” and I was the “them,” and the joke was that I didn’t know who was who. I figured that her comment was some kind of setup. She was trying
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