Who said gay love doesn't last a lifetime? It appears that with an increasing number of lifelong same-sex commitments the tragic days depicted in The Well of Loneliness and A Boy's Own Story are fading into the melodramatic shadows of the past. Blossoming in its place are new dramas and comedies of the present and future – long-term couples and families with children underfoot.  The report entitled "The Close Relationships of Lesbians and Gay Men," by noted same-sex relationship researcher Letitia Anne Peplau, Ph.D., and graduate student Adam W. Fingerhut at the University of California, Los Angeles, reviewed studies ...

At the moment, Australia seems to be finally catching up with the rest of the core Commonwealth countries through introducing substantive relationship equality reforms. There’s just one slight problem- what about ceremonial and formal recognition of relationships? Should it be same-sex marriage, civil unions or registered partnerships? What’s the difference? Well, same-sex marriage would involve amending marriage law to remove any limitation to two people of opposite sexes only getting hitched. Civil unions involve the creation of a parallel institution with parallel ceremonies and parallel rights and obligations, in a secular as opposed to religious context. Registered partnerships involve signing up ...

The New York Times Magazine has a very illuminative story on young gays getting married. It turns out that they have a lot of goofy and ordinary similarities to their straight counterparts. They meet, fall in love, and then they start to figure out what that means to them. For many, that means “settling down,” which comes as a surprise to those who had no intention of settling down — just like a lot of straight couples. And I think that this the real “threat” that social conservatives find in same-sex marriage: it humanizes us. They’ve established a massive multi-million dollar ...