The Tin Man

Young Gay Marrieds

The cover story in today’s New York Times Magazine is about gay couples in Massachusetts who get married in their 20s.

Last November in Boston, Joshua Janson, a slender and boyish 25-year-old, invited me to an impromptu gathering at the apartment he shares with Benjamin McGuire, his considerably more staid husband of the same age. It was a cozy, festive affair, complete with some 20 guests and a large sushi spread where you might have expected the chips and salsa to be.

“I beg of you — please eat a tuna roll!” Joshua barked, circulating around the spacious apartment in a blue blazer, slim-fitting corduroys and a pair of royal blue house slippers with his initials. “The fish is not going to eat itself!”

Coincidentally, the piece is written by Benoit Denizet-Lewis, who wrote the piece about the Abercrombie & Fitch CEO that I re-linked to the other day.

2 comments

1 DJRainDog 4/28/08 at 12:21 PM

I saw the piece online. I began reading it, but couldn’t bring myself to get through it. It agitated and nauseated me. I was excited you mentioned it, but then, you expressed nothing resembling an opinion on the piece or the phenomenon it discusses! Disappointed…

2 The Tin Man » Young Gay Marrieds II 4/28/08 at 2:34 PM

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