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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGot my first "gay wedding" invitation today......
A cousin and her SO are tying the knot in about 3 weeks. Great people. Oh and for you folks that like to rag on southerners, my cuz is DEEP Mississippi born and bred. And it's the OTHER side of the family too, not the one you would expect something like this to happen. For an old guy like me, this is a big fucking deal.
mnhtnbb
(31,374 posts)Congrats to the celebrating couple!
Love--committed love--is a wonderful thing.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)but we'll send them something. They are both really great people. They never really made a big deal out of their relationship, but they've been together for years. They just came out a few months ago.
The cynic in me always said that if anybody wanted to go through the hell I went through during my marriages, then more power to them. What don't kill you makes you stronger.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)In 29 States, including the entire South, it is legal to discriminate against LGBT people in housing, in employment, in delivery of services and of course there is no marriage equality. No marriage equality here either, but we do protect people from open discrimination.
That's just facts. The facts need to change, people do not need to stop pointing them out because of regional pride issues. Sorry.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)pnwmom
(108,959 posts)RudynJack
(1,044 posts)I wish them the very best.
RKP5637
(67,088 posts)thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)I just call them wedding invitations
libodem
(19,288 posts)So egalitarian. I wonder how the OP might have announced this that would include that this was the first and that it is *cough* ahem, you know....the thing that is commonplace these days it needs no qualification, or mention.
BTW, I would be proud to receive my first wedding invitation. Hmmm I've been to plenty of weddings...
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)Not yet though.
libodem
(19,288 posts)I'm out in the sticks. And it is a rare treat for me to meet new *ahem* friends. Maybe someday a wedding invitation will happen for me too.
Glad you are supportive and excited about it.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)And I'm glad they finally felt comfortable enough to come out a few months ago. Although, I was pretty sure about it for years now . As I said above, that side of my family isn't even the most... what? Daring? Open?
And I hope that announcement comes for you too. As far as I'm concerned, anybody that wants to go through the hell on earth that I endured through my two marriages and divorces, more power to 'em.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)May they have many happy years together!
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)I went to a gay wedding before it was even legal here in Mass
Female pastor at a Unitarian church back in 1994 or thereabouts
The reception was a blast
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)But then we were doing interracial weddings long before you folks in the South, too.
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