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Jennifer Finney Boylan: Is my marriage gay?

Submitted by David Hart on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 10:54

This a very well-written essay about couples who remain married after one partner has had sex reassignment surgery.

AS many Americans know, last week Gov. John Baldacci of Maine signed a law that made this state the fifth in the nation to legalize gay marriage. It’s worth pointing out, however, that there were some legal same-sex marriages in Maine already, just as there probably are in all 50 states. These are marriages in which at least one member of the couple has changed genders since the wedding.

I’m in such a marriage myself and, quite frankly, my spouse and I forget most of the time that there is anything particularly unique about our family, even if we are — what is the phrase? — “differently married.”

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