Not my hometown paper, but my current-residence (for more than ten years) paper. I wasn’t home when the mail came and this wonderful page 1 article sat on the counter for hours for my children to see before I got home.
Why am I surprised? (I am not really.) I remember a few years ago seeing an “Arlington celebrates diversity” piece about a woman who was head-over-heels in love with another woman. She had been married (to a man) with children and was happy enough. Then her female boss approached her and wanted to know whether she would be open to playing on the other team. The married mother gave it some thought and decided that she would, so the boss moved in with the woman and her husband to give all the children a chance to adjust to the new two-mommy situation. Of course, the husband was very supportive throughout and gracefully exited after a decent interval.
I tried to imagine what reaction the Advocate would get if it ran a story about a happy married mom whose male boss hit and her and caused her to break up her marriage.
Do you remember a few years ago when a school committee member told the AHS graduating class that now they had twice as many potential marriage partners to choose from? That one puzzled me: if orientation is fixed at birth, what possible effect would the gay-marriage law have on the options of heteros?
that was supposed to be “hit on her”