Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Young Gay Rites: NY Times
#1Young Gay Rites: NY Times
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
#2re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:57pmNobody even wants to comment on the Rockwellesque photos?
#2re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
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.
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#3re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 6:15pmI hear ya, Dottie. By page 4 I was feeling bitter.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#4re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
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.
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Auggie27
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#5re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 8:16pmNo 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?)
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#6re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 8:19pm
The pictures made me bitter too.
(They do all look like Young Republicans.)
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#7re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
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
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#8re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
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.
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#9re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:17pm
George,
Why do you keep quoting 'The Onion'?
It's not a real newspaper.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
george95
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#11re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:21pmNice answer, Captian Constipated.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#12re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:34pmouch. that hurt. Listen I take all the medication I can, all right.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#13re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:36pmIt shows.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#14re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:42pmWow. Now youre making fun of me for being medicated for constipation. So not cool.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#15re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:44pmAnd saying that you are impersonating me is?
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#16re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:47pmuhhh 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#17re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:50pm
What do you mean, "Can't handle it"?
Handle what?
Your mindless ramblings?
Nothing there to handle.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#18re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#19re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
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.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#20re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:08pmhmmm so youre gonna ignore my argument huh? hmmmmm.
#21re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:34pmJesus 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.
#22re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
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.
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#23re: Young Gay Rites: NY Times
Posted: 4/29/08 at 12:19ami 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.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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