Are you going to talk about Ben and Michael's friends Eli and Monty? And how marriage is portrayed as being "good" and how it's the opposite of the "bad" club going and promiscuous behavior evinced by those who are less mature (or at least those who are Brian)?
This isn't a book for QAF fans. It's an academic book for use in graduate school classes on media and/or LGBT studies. I'm writing about how marriage is portrayed on the show.
"This isn't a book for QAF fans. It's an academic book for use in graduate school classes"
I understood that.
"I'm writing about how marriage is portrayed on the show"
You're, in your own words, writing about how marriage is portrayed in the show. So I was asking if one of the points you were going to cover is how, in the show, marriage is portrayed as the good, mature thing versus promiscuous club going as the bad, immature behavior. That's not a topic just for QAF fans, and it isn't a topic just for people who want to rehash how Brian Kinney was mistreated. It's a topic throughout the show, and seems like it comes up often enough to deserve a place in any thing written on gay marriage that uses examples from QAF.
Since I haven't even begun writing the article, I think you might wait until I've at least outlined the thing before you assume what I'm going to write.
Or else find someone to commission you to write it yourself.
In another, a ceremony without legal status in front of friends and de facto family.
And then the couple who called off their marriage, but were the ones, IMO, who most closely lived out the ideal of what a "marriage of true minds" can be - a union which supports and encourages both to be the best they can be and which allows them the space and room to grow to be that best.
I'm minded of Kahlil Gibran's injunction - "stand together, but not too near together, ...for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow". (Have I got that right? It's something like that. It's years since I read the Prophet.)
Would love to read the article when it's finished.
I can see mention of Michael and Ben and Mel and Linds, but who had the "marriage of true minds" on the show? Because it surely can't be that wreck of a relationship that was canon Brian and Justin. With the lying, the cheating, and continuous lack of communication, all the flowery words and phrases in the world can't make what Brian and Justin had a real marriage, either legal or "of true minds".
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school classes on media and/or LGBT studies. I'm writing about how marriage
is portrayed on the show.
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I understood that.
"I'm writing about how marriage is portrayed on the show"
You're, in your own words, writing about how marriage is portrayed in the show.
So I was asking if one of the points you were going to cover is how, in the show, marriage is portrayed as the good, mature thing versus promiscuous club going as the bad, immature behavior.
That's not a topic just for QAF fans, and it isn't a topic just for people who want to rehash how Brian Kinney was mistreated. It's a topic throughout the show, and seems like it comes up often enough to deserve a place in any thing written on gay marriage that uses examples from QAF.
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wait until I've at least outlined the thing before you assume
what I'm going to write.
Or else find someone to commission you to write it yourself.
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In one case, a legal marriage in Canada.
In another, a ceremony without legal status in front of friends and de facto family.
And then the couple who called off their marriage, but were the ones, IMO, who most closely lived out the ideal of what a "marriage of true minds" can be - a union which supports and encourages both to be the best they can be and which allows them the space and room to grow to be that best.
I'm minded of Kahlil Gibran's injunction - "stand together, but not too near together, ...for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow". (Have I got that right? It's something like that. It's years since I read the Prophet.)
Would love to read the article when it's finished.
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This isn't an article for fans. And I'm not going to work out my frustrations
with the show in it.
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Ignore the trolls, you will be great.
INHO: The only lieing Brian did was to himself and Justin's were sins of omission
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