JOE STONE IS ON IT
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TAKING THAT NEXT STEP IN A RELATIONSHIP
‘DO YOU THINK you’ll get married?’ is the new ‘when did you realise?’ in terms of questions that straight people I hardly know are obsessed with asking me. I suppose I can’t blame them too much, what with gay marriage now being legal everywhere apart from those super backwards places, and me having been with my boyfriend for a *cough* number of years (It’s also preferable to my female friends, who inevitably get inundated with questions about if and when they plan to furnish their wombs, but that’s another column).
The obvious answer to the wedding question is, ‘I’m far too young to even consider it’. Other responses range from ‘are you proposing?’ to ‘down with heteronormative orthodoxy’. In truth, I’m not adverse to one day being a bride, but in the meantime there are loads of other ways for modern gays to demonstrate their love without resorting to blowing two grand on cake pops.