Kate Rockwood

Queer Marriage Makes Invisible Those Relationships Defined as "Other"

"We can have a big potluck and all hang out," I tell her, grinning. I am talking of We in the broadest sense: myself, my love, my love's love, my love's other love, my fuckbuddy, my gal pal, my best friend, my dating partner, my friend's rommates, my kissmate and her boyfriend, my kissmate and his best friend, my confidant and their friends - the web of friendships and sex and intimacies and confidences that has spun itself around us...

Originally published March 2002, University of Chicago's Free Press as part of a three-article opinion piece on gay marriage