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Lindsy Van Gelder

  • Several years ago, I stopped going to weddings. ... My explanation is that the next wedding I attend will be my own — to the woman I've loved and lived with for nearly six years. ... Several people have reacted with surprise to our views, it never having occurred to them that gay people can't legally marry. (Why on earth did they think that none of us had bothered?)

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    • "Marriage as a Restricted Club," in Evelyn Ashton-Jones and Gary A. Olson, The Gender Reader ()

Lindsy Van Gelder, U.S. writer