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Clinton, Kate
UNPLUGGED KATE CLIMON Freedom Not to Marry Kit Recently. I was reading one of the many glossy ga\ magazines I gut. There's a sentence you ne\er used to hear. No more plain brown wrappers for us!...
...But no, the issue du anno burbling up in he gay movement is the Freedom to darry...
...If there had been this freedom to marry when I was a child, would it have meant that I would not have had to hide crushes'.' If it meant that I could go home and say to my Irish-Catholic mother...
...Investigators think the motive was robbery...
...big if...
...Wait, you can't until vou are married...
...Turns out the FTM kit is designed to help concerned gays organize in their municipalities for the freedom to marry...
...Pout—The Log Cabin newsletter (great article about Bob Dole returning gav money...
...So was the freedom not to have children...
...I will take anything which gets new gay people incensed, interested, involved in the gay movement...
...Trout—gav sports trolling...
...This FTM mini-movement seems to be fueled by a desire to show that we can be upstanding citizens, with children, and that we will keep sex within the confines of marriage...
...Wind, and Fire concert and she said yes...
...Oh, honey, that's wonderful...
...This would certainly cut down on a whole range of civil-service jobs...
...Instead of thinking that I was enthusing about gay guys convincing their dads that thev were man enough to kill other men...
...Gay things to buy...
...I think we should try to talk straight people out of getting married...
...Instead of spending time on the freedom to marry...
...What do you love about her.' Will vou practice safe sex'1 Oh...
...Or I would have predicted we would be organizing around the Supreme Court's ipcoming ruling on the Colorado amend-nent, or at least having a small action to protest that the Clinton Administration lid not even see fit to file an amicus brief...
...I'll stop saving "marred" instead of "married" as soon as I get my multi-colored FTM card...
...Lisa Marie/Michael...
...In between the ad for gay real estate and gay colonics ("Swallow a prism, shit a rainbow...
...Doubt—a maga/ine lor bisexuals...
...I'm doing my best to balance the budget...
...Of course I believe that gay people should have the right to marrv...
...And OK, I wasn't really reading...
...and have equal access to all benefits accruing to straight married people, but for myself...
...I would have thought we would have leen out in the streets over health care, liven the cost of caring for people living vith AIDS and the disproportionately ligh rates of breast cancer among lesbians...
...I was looking at the pictures...
...Di/Chuck/Cami 1 la...
...Because so many gay people arc having children—-they definitely have that thrill-seeking gene—it follows that they would want the civil protections of marriage for those children...
...I wondered, "Who is Kit...
...I would have thought our issue would he violence against gays—witness the murder in Oregon of two known lesbian activists...
...It's not going well for them: Enid/Joe...
...The freedom not to marry was always one of the things I enjoyed about being gay...
...Famous gay half-sisters playing ministers at gav weddings on hip...
...Lee moment...
...Or the Freedom to Marry Martina, with very clear, signed prenuptial agreements, of course, but this Kit thing had me mystified...
...all manner of gay magazines with "out" in the title are mailed openly lo post office boxes all o\er the country...
...I'm just having a very Peggy "Is That All There Is...
...I spotted an ad for "The Freedom to Marry Kit...
...Out and About—gay travel...
...It's hard to be gav and a people pleaser...
...Or him'.'" It was a very androgynous "Ask Pat" moment...
...I could understand the Freedom to Marry Melissa...
...Married" sign and tin can tails rattling up the street...
...I have examined my reluctance to hop on the gav bandwagon with the "Jus...
...ate 'Don't Dis Mv Sis " Clinton is a comedian...
...Think vaporizer...
...Now if I were into handicapping, sorry, predicting the next issue for gay people to get het up about, it would not have been gay marriage...
...And my mother would joyfully say...
...Famous gay people...
...As if...
...Now...
...If...
...Famous dead suspected gay people...
...that is the net trickle-down effect of the Freedom to Marrv movement...
...The oni\ maga/ine I insist come under wraps into m\ neighborhood is The .Wir Republic...
...It's not the first time I have had to work up enthusiasm for a gav issue...
...I have applied rigorous self-criticism to understand why this issue does not exactly knock the dots off my dice...
...Don't get me wrong...
...I got there by thinking of it as a jobs program...
...I prefer living in sin...
...Go figure...
...And why do we want to marry her...
...I asked her to an Earth...
...Not full steam...
...Nicole/OJ...
...I just met the most dreamy girl...
...We've got pictures...
...Like rainbow-colored freedom rings are hard to come by...
...Of course...
...Gays in the military was a challenge...
...I've got to register mv china pattern: gold-leat entwined women's symbols on a purple background...
...gay-friendly shows, (iav cruises to take...
Vol. 60 • March 1996 • No. 3
