WE ARE MORE: Sustenance
How does one navigate the in-between?
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Posts Tagged: Gay Marriage
An Imperfect Plan
In that moment of quiet, I screamed, as loud as I could, “I’m bisexual.”
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Silence Is the Fertile Field: Talking with Fenton Johnson
Fenton Johnson discusses his new book, AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY.
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Marital Piss
My body tightened as the knee-jerk worry of being seen and outed flooded back.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: First Love
We met in a dorm hallway, half past midnight.
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Turning Purple: The Borderland
What we have most in common is that we don’t know the truth.
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The Real Community Guidelines: How to Be a True Ally
The banning of women’s nipples is, of course, violence in and of itself.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #157: Sarah Viren
”There’s a danger to the word [’mine’] that I find really rich and exciting.”
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With Great Devotion: Julie Marie Wade’s Same-Sexy Marriage
Ultimately, this is a story in which redemption is not a possibility.
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My Son’s Tutu
The thing I’ve learned about kids is that you only ever get a glimpse of the grown-up people they’ll become.
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Moving Toward Answers: A Conversation with Stephen Mills
Poet Stephen Mills discusses his first two collections, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices and A History of the Unmarried, teaching writing, and what’s next.
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Libraries Are the Real Punk Rock
Maybe I was only in the eighth grade, but I was ready to stand up to anyone who tried to threaten the ideal of intellectual freedom.
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United We Stand
No one knows exactly what the next four years will bring. But we are always stronger when we protest together.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Anne Raeff
Married authors Anne Raeff and Lori Ostlund, both winners of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, discuss their craft, their process, and the way they negotiate the give and take involved in sharing a vocation.
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Different Love
Let me be clear: I’m not interested in changing. I’ve made my choice, and I’m happy.
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A Long Engagement
The image that comes to my mind is a foot hovering above a stair. Marriage is the fabled next step, but engagement implies a kind of limbo, an almost-not-quite-there yet—the zero that comes before the one.
...moreMarriage Equality: A Rumpus Roundup
On June 26th, the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that states must allow same-sex couples to marry and that they must recognize marriages performed in other states. The ruling ends the bans against same-sex marriage that existed in 14 states. This decision comes two years to the day since the Court’s decision in […]
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Vikings Punter Fired for Supporting Gay Marriage?
So there you have it. It’s my belief, based on everything that happened over the course of 2012, that I was fired by Mike Priefer, a bigot who didn’t agree with the cause I was working for, and two cowards, Leslie Frazier and Rick Spielman… If Fantasy Football for Poets were still going, it would […]
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Now that We Can, Maybe We Won’t
When the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, thousands took to the San Francisco streets. That day, I joined in on the mirth, and then came home to Wendy, my beloved partner of five years, beset with the glow that only a joyous mob can inspire. Here was the conversation that ensued: […]
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Reelings #6: Interior. Leather Bar.
Interior. Leather Bar. is actually less a tribute to the lost footage from Cruising, and more of a docufiction about the nature of sexuality, heteronormativity, and the representation of both in mainstream films.
...moreVictories for Pro-Choicers, Gay Marriage; Defeat for Voting Rights
As you’re probably aware, we’ve been covering Texas’s grotesque anti-abortion bill SB5, and we’re overjoyed to report it did not pass. Texas State Senator (and now folk hero) Wendy Davis filibustered the bill for close to thirteen hours under the state legislature’s stringent rules: no sitting, leaning, drinking water, using the bathroom, or speaking about subjects […]
...moreSupreme Court Gay Marriage Roundup
You may have noticed that all your Facebook friends are now the same person, and that person is a pink equals sign on a red background. That’s because they support same-sex marriage, and the Supreme Court is hearing arguments today and tomorrow regarding the constitutionality of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California. Here […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Michael Lowenthal
Michael Lowenthal’s new novel, The Paternity Test, goes well beyond questioning whether two guys should be allowed to walk down the aisle together. It asks what they are willing to risk to stay married.
...moreThin Opposition
“…Prejudice is a kind of cartel that works best when there is no real dissent. Once one person breaks away, others who may have had doubts find it easy to speak up. Moreover, those who never really had objection–but were just kinda going along–also fall away.” As more public figures express their support for marriage […]
...moreA FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #39: It Gets Better
In late June, several days before Derek Jeter went yard with his milestone 3,000th hit as a Yankee, something even more incredible happened in the State of New York: the State Senate passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage.
...moreGay Marriage for America
Love and the pursuit of happiness were the impetus for Andrew Sullivan’s move from the UK to America. He wrote a beautiful essay for Newsweek on the benefits of gay marriage for straight America. With our “inalienable human rights” being deeply intertwined with what it means to be part of this country, it should follow […]
...moreMorning Coffee
True story: this entry briefly read “morning of coffee”. I tell you this because I trust you. The top ten places you can not go. A guide to making cartoons in 1910. This whale shaped water-cleaning-super-garden makes me happy to be alive. Memories and brain entanglement. Nate Silver proves that gay marriage bans are bad […]
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1970s lowbrow super 8 design. hurray! Journey Around my Skull continues its look at Polish children’s books. Is ALL marriage illegal in Texas? 15 uses for newspapers. Imaging alien Earths in the near future. Turning videogames into art.
...more“A Friend’s Take” by Steven Tagle
Rumpus contributor Steven Tagle has entered this film in Project Pushback, a competition to produce fresh messaging in support of the freedom to marry. If you like “A Friend’s Take,” please take a second to create a free user account on vimeo.com and vote for the film. Here’s how to vote: 1. Create a free […]
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