Edie and Thea

Posted by dougwood on Aug 22, 2011 in Journal | 0 comments Share This clip shows in a very concrete way why Marriage Equality is important for gays and lesbians. These two lovely women were together for 44 years and when Thea died, Edie was left having to pay inheritance taxes that a husband and wife don’t have to pay. It’s not fair. And so with the help of the ACLU, Edie, the surviving spouse, is suing the US government for not recognizing...
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The War Horse

Posted by dougwood on Aug 8, 2011 in Journal | 0 comments ShareI went to see a fantastic play yesterday at the Lincoln Center, called The War Horse. The story was about World War I and how horses were conscripted into the British army to fight Germany. This was one of the last conflicts to use horses in battle. The play is beautiful and brutal and amazing. Most especially, the staging was so inventive: they used life-sized puppets with three puppeteers...
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Gay Marriages Rock, or How We Almost Didn’t Get Married

Posted by dougwood on Jun 25, 2011 in Journal | 10 comments Share In the window between when same-sex marriage was legal in CA and when Prop 8 passed, those sunshiny days, James and I got married after 17 years together. How strange it all was, how sudden. We’d been together for nearly a third of our lives but we had only considered that marriage might be in the cards for less than a year. In the 1970′s when I was growing up gay, a dumb...
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