This is the blog for History 128, LGBTQ History of the U.S., Claremont McKenna College, spring 2019. It is open only to members of the class. Please post items relevant to the themes of our course, and please comment on other posts as well. Check back regularly for updates!
Thursday, April 25, 2019
What does a marriage look like?
This video seems to touch on all the complexities of marriage brought up in our readings. This is a marriage, long before marriage equality, between an infertile intersex lesbian with a disability and a gay man. It discusses the idea that marriage does not necessarily mean sex or procreation, but simply a deep love (of any variety) and a commitment to care for another human being. I was interested in the ways this marriage points out all the things we do not ask straight-passing couples when they get married: What is your sexual orientation? What is your biological sex? Are you fertile? Despite the "untraditional" answers this couple would have given, they were able to marry and have been happily married for many years. I think it's an interesting piece and one that injects nuance into our notion of family, imbuing our understanding with the plurality discussed in the Queer Kids of Queer Parents piece we read.
(Just in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvpGzeXUFR8)
I really liked this video/piece! It really brings up the ways people are able to manipulate the benefits that marriage as an institution gives people. I also thought it was interesting to see how there are different kinds of long term, lasting love that doesn't necessarily need to be sexual.
I really liked this video/piece! It really brings up the ways people are able to manipulate the benefits that marriage as an institution gives people. I also thought it was interesting to see how there are different kinds of long term, lasting love that doesn't necessarily need to be sexual.
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