Remember Benoit Denizet-Lewis' lengthy exploration of young gay marrieds in Sunday's New York Times?

Well, the journalist got flack for only profiling white, middle-class, educated men, which led some to wonder whether he simply chose to ignore people of color.

Tired of whispers and murmurs, Denizet-Lewis sent out an email earlier this afternoon and tried to clear things up.

He's not a racist, you see, but simply couldn't find any black people! In fact, there aren't many black marrieds to be found, he says - after the jump, of course.

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Sunday's edition of The New York Times was all sorts of queer. The paper contained not one, but two explicitly bent tales.

The first, and lengthier, came in the form of the magazine's Young Gay Rites, a look at married, white and privileged twenty-somethings in Boston, where gay marriage is legal.

Now, we don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but the article made us a bit - uneasy. Obviously we're entirely supportive of gay marriage, but we're always hesitant to embrace twenty-somethings settling down. And especially when they're gay.

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