Editor’s note: We’ve asked online comedian, voice actor and chest hair model Sam Kalidi to create a new meme each week for Queerty readers. This week he celebrates our just-announced victory for marriage equality with a message for its most virulent opponents, such as Sarah Palin, whose charming and equally antigay daughter Bristol has just revealed her second out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Sam looks forward to all your hate mail. You can find him onTwitter, Facebook, Instagram and at your local glory hole.
Atrius
Zing!
TampaBayTed
I hope the fundie folks poop their pants. This would have come about much soon had the asswipe G.W. hadn’t played the anti-gay card at every opportunity. And don’t get me started on his blocking of stem cell research programs. He set everything back 8 years during his reign of religiosity and retrograde policies.
Verlaine
So, does marriage require monogamy? 30 years ago, my most exciting relationship was with a beautiful young “straight” man, who refused to call himself “bi” because everyone would “think he was gay”. His one rule: Do not interfere with his girlfriends. I could not have cared less about his girlfriends, as long as he slept with me every weekend. Believe me, he was model-perfect, incredibly sexy, sexy, ripped, super-hung and perpetually cute. He was a dream come true. After ten years, he came over one night to tell me he was getting married. We hugged goodbye. He had two children, but eventually, he left his wife, got hooked on meth and died of AIDS.
On the other hand, I had a full-time gay lover in the mid-70’s. Everything was undercover and it never bothered us that we couldn’t be public about our relationship. I was very much in love with him, and it broke my heart when he insisted on sleeping with others. Eventually, that distrust and disappointment led to our breakup. He’s still a friend today, but we both agree we wouldn’t have wanted to marry then, and we don’t want to get married now.
When young, love seems easy and it can happen suddenly. Things change, though, and marriage, with all the legal requirements and responsibilities, can look like a very bad choice when the initial attraction fades. I do wish everyone who wants to marry the very best outcome, but if you really love someone, why not wait and see if you feel the same way after a year or two? After all, marriage is supposed to be forever. Is that practical for gay men?
Glücklich
Can we just put the hole Failin’ Palin klan out on an ice floe and bid them adieu once and for all? Not just Sarah, Todd, Bristol et al, but à la North Korea round up every single twig and leaflet and fallen nut from that gammy family tree and send ’em out to sea?
badtungsten
@Verlaine: What incoherent nonsense. First you recount your love life over the years, then excoriate us to wait a few years before deciding to marry. What point are you trying to make? I’ve been with my partner for three years. Is that long enough to wait? Do I have your permission to move forward with my wedding tomorrow? It sounds to me like you’re perfectly fine living your life in the shadows, always accepting someone’s handout as good enough. Not me sister, not me.
Verlaine
@badtungsten: I asked two questions:
(1) Does marriage require monogamy?
(2) Is “forever” marriage practical for gay men?
But all you want to do is bash me, which I’m used to. I’ll refrain from making unkind comments about you, but three years is nothin’, buddy. I’ve done that several times over. And congratulations on your wedding, I hope it works out.
enlightenone
Why is Queerty stretching this trailer park trash’s unearned 15 minutes?
TrueWords
@Verlaine: 1. Yes my marriage is designed around monogamy and the truth; not hiding in a web of lies and deceit to first myself and then infecting my husband…you can design your marriage any way that you want but do both parties a favor and admit your sins and/or short comings before you say I DO
2. Gay men are human beings and capable of “forever”…it is not far fetched…not everyone has to scratch an itch and fuck, rim, kiss, suck, engage EVERY damn distraction that comes their gay way…it is less about monogamy and MORE about maturity and not trying to be a SLUT…unless that is what you are of which BE A DAMN GOOD SLUT…then do not get married…
Of course there are distractions to happiness BUT that does not mean that you have to ENGAGE them unless you are truly selfish and dick driven and less about what has been nurtured in your heart with another person if there was anything there to TRULY begin with…