Young Gay Rites: NY Times

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 11:36am

An incredibly sweet and thought-provoking article about gay men in their 20s getting married and in some cases, divorced. It's 10 pages but it's worth the read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/magazine/27young-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=young+gay+rites&st=nyt&oref=slogin

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:57pm

Nobody even wants to comment on the Rockwellesque photos?

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 1:18pm

I read this over the weekend. It definitely made me think about my perpetual state of singleness (by choice), that's for sure.

Updated On: 4/28/08 at 01:18 PM

[Namaste]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 6:15pm

I hear ya, Dottie. By page 4 I was feeling bitter.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:40pm

I'm not even going to waste my time reading what a bunch of 20 year olds are doing.


They are only 20. They haven't got a CLUE yet.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 8:16pm

No one else thought the iconic 50's-styled photos a bit too forced and precious? I dunno, they looked very Stepford gay to me. Assexual devotees of the slick, max out your credit cards HGTV aesthetic who, like, just wanna spend a lot of money fixing up their fixer-upper digs? I salute the gay right to middle-American normalcy, but must they all look like the young Mitt Romney (or worse, people who'd vote for him?)

[Namaste]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 8:19pm

The pictures made me bitter too.

(They do all look like Young Republicans.)

[george95]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 8:23pm

I'm not sure of the point of this article. Young Gay Rites? Dont' all young people go through the same "rites" of meeting somebody, moving in together, etc, etc,. What's gay or straight about that?

It reminds me of this article from THE ONION:


http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30366

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 8:41pm

"Dont' all young people go through the same "rites" of meeting somebody, moving in together, etc, etc,."

In a word...NO.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:17pm

George,

Why do you keep quoting 'The Onion'?


It's not a real newspaper.

[george95]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:19pm

thanks Captain Obvious.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:21pm

Nice answer, Captian Constipated.

[george95]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:34pm

ouch. that hurt. Listen I take all the medication I can, all right.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:36pm

It shows.

[george95]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:42pm

Wow. Now youre making fun of me for being medicated for constipation. So not cool.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:44pm

And saying that you are impersonating me is?

[george95]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:47pm

uhhh i'm not taking any of this seriously. You had to come up on this thread with your personal crap and start with me. So dont get your shorts in a bunch just because you cant handle it back your way.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:50pm

What do you mean, "Can't handle it"?

Handle what?

Your mindless ramblings?


Nothing there to handle.

[george95]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:59pm

You dont know what I'm referring to? How about reading your most recent post, cuz that's what I'm referring to. You said

"And saying that you are impersonating me is?"

That's what I was referring to.

And if I all I do is mindlessly ramble, then do me a favor and all of BWW a favor and ignore me instead of constantly responding to all of my posts with some random catty comment.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:03pm

Do you just type just to type?



It's like the off topic board has turned into 'George95 topic board'.



You don't have to post EVERY LITTLE THOUGHT that comes staggering into your head.

[george95]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:08pm

hmmm so youre gonna ignore my argument huh? hmmmmm.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:34pm

Jesus Christ on the cross! Will you two just get a room! A few vigorous pelvic thrusts and you'll get all this tension out, I tell you.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:38pm

It was an interesting and entertaining read, for sure. The first time I've read an entire article in the NYT Magazine in a while...the magazine has been so bland lately.

Actually, except for that great article about Bart Sher a few months ago.

[skb2010]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 12:19am

i was actually going to say the same thing horse. honestly. it's like if one of you posts, the other goes just to start an argument.