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Therapeutic Issues for Same-Sex Couples

By Kathleen Ritter

Same-sex couples share many commonalities with heterosexual couples. The day-to-day activities of their lives often are similar, but the social context in which they live differs greatly, largely due to the influences of the dominant heterosexual culture and traditional expectations of gender roles within a relationship.

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Gay Breakups Are Better, and Here’s Why

The LGBTQ community is known for its emphasis on tolerance, but one of our progressive dating phenomena is particularly worth praising and sharing. It’s quite common to become friends with exes.

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Jill Gutowitz
2018
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The Queer Art of Divorce

Composer Ethan Philbrick and novelist Torrey Peters discuss what it means to make art and community after a marriage ends.

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Haley Mlotek
2021
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Celebrating My (Gay) Divorce

Marriage equality means divorce equality—and I feel pride, as well as sadness, about my split from my husband.

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Steven Petrow
2019
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Sex, Intimacy, and Being Gay

Sex seems central to intimate and romantic relationships. If it is a means of intimate communication, and communication is the secret to a lasting and healthy relationship, why don’t we gay men talk about it that way more often?

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J Nelson Aviance
2014
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Small Daily Struggles Make LGBT People Feel Like They Have to Hide

One big surprise (to straight people at least) is that over two thirds of LGBT people avoid holding hands in public.

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Christine Jackson-Taylor
2018
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This Is America: How Society’s Views on Gender Impact Relationships

For this edition of This Is America, two nonbinary people opened up about their journeys in relationships and finding their identities, a narrative that is largely unfamiliar and under-researched in a country that continues to diversify with time.

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Petruce Jean-Charles, Alison Cutler
2021
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Are Same-Sex Marriages Different from Heterosexual Marriages?

Scientists have found that the psychological and social aspects of committed relationships between same-sex partners largely resemble those of heterosexual partnerships.

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American Psychological Association
2013
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Falling in Love with Marriage

When a friend first presented to me the arguments for gay marriage, in 1994, I thought the whole idea was ridiculous. In the face of staggering prejudice against us, marriage felt so remote as to be irrelevant.

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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Queeries: How Do I Get Over a Friendship Breakup?

The nuclear family is a cis-het scam which leaves queer people particularly vulnerable after friendship breakups says our Fagony Aunt. Take space and sit with your feelings.

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Aisha Mirza
2021
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5 Rules for LGBT Dating

In an effort to help you bypass some of the most common mistakes our peeps make, I’ve compiled a list of my 5 BIGGEST rules to follow.

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Darcy Sterling
2016
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