June 25, 2011 The New York Times/The Bay Citizen
As gay people and issues have become more visible on the American landscape, social etiquette has been scrambling to catch up.
People may differ on the issue of gay marriage, but who wants to argue about a seating chart for a same-sex wedding? And those pesky pronouns? How should one address those whose gender preference has not been made explicit?
Enter the brave new world of gay and lesbian etiquette. This month saw the publication of “Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners” (Workman Publishing), a 400-page tome covering a broad range of modern issues, like coming out as transgender to your date, etiquette on sperm donation day and surviving holidays with homophobic in-laws.
When Mr. Petrow wrote “The Essential Book of Gay Manners and Etiquette” for gay men 16 years ago, online dating, “The L Word” and same-sex civil unions or marriage were not around. “It was like 1,600 years ago in gay years,” he said. “It was a different world in terms of community, technology and our legal status.” (more)
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Jeanne Carstensen is a San Francisco based writer and member of the Castro Writers’ Cooperative. She covered the refugee crisis in Lesbos, Greece in 2015 with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Jeanne was executive managing editor of The Bay Citizen, which produced the Bay Area pages of the New York Times, and has been an editor at Salon, SFGate.com and the Whole Earth Review. She was a National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University and her work has appeared in The New York Times, PRI’s The World, Foreign Policy, Nautilus, Salon, and other publications.
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