Not If, But When
Like Aly’s post this morning, this afternoon’s post is also about trying to survive the horrible politics of anti-LGBTQ legislation, this time in Colorado. Kelsey’s post comes to a different conclusion...
View ArticleGay Wedding Planning: You Gotta Have Balls
This morning’s post by Jill about the balls needed to plan a gay wedding is, first of all, hilarious. But secondly, it’s true in this highly-specific-is-always-universal head nodding way. Reading it, I...
View ArticleReclaiming Wife: The One About Babies
Babies. Future babies. Gay babies, or as Kelly Prizel called them last APW Pride, “Gaybies.” Today’s post from Sarah is on fielding the inevitable questions about babies; it’s about the pain those...
View ArticleWhy We’re Not Crossing the Line
Last week, I was on Forum, our local NPR affiliate’s news and call-in show talking about the agony and ecstasy of weddings. We only had one gay caller, and what she said felt like a punch to the gut....
View ArticleAPW Pride Week: What You Can Do
Sometimes I forget that not everyone is naturally a political animal. I know that seems obvious, but as someone whose first love was politics (cut to Meg age twelve, shushing the household so she could...
View ArticleWhy We (Probably) Won’t Be Having Gaybies
So far, the posts in Kids/No Kids week have been from mixed-gender couples’ perspectives. And in circling major marriage issues, we’re always wiser when we talk about the LGBTQ perspective (gay...
View ArticleFait Accompli
It’s never an easy thing when relationships break. But it can be that much harder to make sense of the experience when your marriage was never acknowledged by your government, your faith, or your...
View ArticleRemember the Lesbians: On Finances
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from reading APW, it’s that finances are something we need to be talking about. Right now there are a lot of troubling conversations being had within our generation...
View ArticleRemember The Lesbians: Engagement Rings
There’s nothing I love more than an engagement story that encourages a balance of honest communication with trust in your partner and then sets it with realistic expectations. Because let’s be honest,...
View ArticleIt Stands Alone
by Meaghan O’Malley Throughout the course of the very limited conversations we had about our marriage ending, my ex made it quite clear to me that our wedding was a mistake. If not a mistake, a...
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