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tion, I do rem em ber this quote from Everett in the
January 2000 issue o f Playboy: “I was gay List
year, I’m gay this year, I ’ll be gay next year and 1
just can ’t be bothered to go on about it all the dm e.n
Having read this statem ent, I opted not to
inquire about Everett’s orientation during the inter-
view session. Everett had, however, several oppor
tunities in the conversation to specify his bisexuality;
he did not.
Given that Everett did not identify him self as
bisexual, it would have been inappropriate fo rm e to
draft him as poster boy for bisexual visibility.
Who wants to trivialize
marriage?
To t h e
E d it o r :
The recent airing of W ho Wants to Marry a
Multi-Millionaire? and the subsequent fiasco of
marital mayhem reminded me painfully of one
truth— there is nothing I can possibly do as a gay
man to demean or trivialize marriage more than
has already been done by married heterosexual
males and the women who love them.
Opponents of same-sex marriage make two
arguments in support of the position that the
state has a compelling interest in prohibiting gay
men and lesbians from marrying. T he first is that
the legal recognition of same-sex marriage
would undermine the connection between mar
riage and reproduction. T he inability to repro
duce, however, by itself cannot be a compelling
reason to deny two individuals the right to
marry. If it were, we would be able to prohibit an
older or infertile heterosexual couple from mar
rying. Clearly, there is more to marriage than
the opportunity to have children.
The second argument relied upon by oppo
nents of same-sex marriage is that the institu
tion of marriage would be demeaned or trivial
ized if gay men and lesbians were allowed to
marry.
Let me make the suggestion that most people
felt the marriage that took place on Fox was
demeaning and trivializing to the institution of
marriage. In this case, should the federal and
state governments take as much time to argue
and make illegal this type of airtime entertain
ment as they have the “defense of marriage”
measures?
If the government were to attempt this friv
olous marriage ban, almost any court in the
United States would likely strike it down as
interfering with the rights of two individuals to
make an agreement.
W hen compared to the exhibition of hetero
sexual marriage on television between two com
plete strangers, same-sex marriage pursued by
two people after years of commitment seems
completely justified.
As the Vermont Supreme Court recently
stated, state recognition of committed and lov
ing same-sex relationships is nothing more than
“a recognition of our common humanity.”
But, then, are most people worried gays and
lesbians would actually demean the institution,
or rather bring to it a higher level of respect?
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