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Are Same-Sex Marriages Different from Heterosexual Marriages?

By American Psychological Association — 2013

Scientists have found that the psychological and social aspects of committed relationships between same-sex partners largely resemble those of heterosexual partnerships.

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Falling in Love with Marriage

When a friend first presented to me the arguments for gay marriage, in 1994, I thought the whole idea was ridiculous. In the face of staggering prejudice against us, marriage felt so remote as to be irrelevant.

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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The Queer Art of Divorce

Composer Ethan Philbrick and novelist Torrey Peters discuss what it means to make art and community after a marriage ends.

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Haley Mlotek
2021
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Small Daily Struggles Make LGBT People Feel Like They Have to Hide

One big surprise (to straight people at least) is that over two thirds of LGBT people avoid holding hands in public.

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Christine Jackson-Taylor
2018
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What LGBTQ+ Relationships Can Teach Us About Love

A study published by the Open University has found that gay couples are likely to be happier in their relationships than their heterosexual counterparts and several reasons have been posed, from less gender stereotypes featuring in the relationship to a historical predisposition for inner...

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Jacqui Gabb
2021
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From the Under 35 Project: “Meditation of Monogamy”

For us, monogamy seems to have become synonymous with settling. And settle is such a dirty word, isn’t it? It means that you are somehow compromising or denying yourself the chance to have everything.

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Kate Johnson
2013
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The Challenges Every Neurodiverse Woman Faces When Dating

Marianne Eloise knows what it is to be neurodiverse. Here, she unpacks the misconceptions that can make dating – and relationships – harder for autistic people

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Marianne Eloise
2021
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Gay Breakups Are Better, and Here’s Why

The LGBTQ community is known for its emphasis on tolerance, but one of our progressive dating phenomena is particularly worth praising and sharing. It’s quite common to become friends with exes.

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Jill Gutowitz
2018
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Celebrating My (Gay) Divorce

Marriage equality means divorce equality—and I feel pride, as well as sadness, about my split from my husband.

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Steven Petrow
2019
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Sex, Intimacy, and Being Gay

Sex seems central to intimate and romantic relationships. If it is a means of intimate communication, and communication is the secret to a lasting and healthy relationship, why don’t we gay men talk about it that way more often?

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J Nelson Aviance
2014
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This Is America: How Society’s Views on Gender Impact Relationships

For this edition of This Is America, two nonbinary people opened up about their journeys in relationships and finding their identities, a narrative that is largely unfamiliar and under-researched in a country that continues to diversify with time.

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Petruce Jean-Charles, Alison Cutler
2021
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