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« Reply #2535 on: June 09, 2013, 11:16:43 AM »
Thanks for your concern, advice etc, everyone.

A bit of background.......  Simon and his brother are not close and I have met him only a few times over the last 20 years (funerals, weddings etc.  You get the picture) so I guess it is quite easy for me to appear super cool about the whole thing.  If I saw them on a regular basis, I would probably be running through a shopping mall as we speak with a flame-thrower.

Simon's latest plan is to go to the marriage ceremony (he is quite fond of his seldom-seen niece) and then skip the reception.  He is not a confrontational person, so I guess this is the nearest he is going to get to a 'protest'.

And, yes, Jess, Simon's other relatives, including a couple of delightful elderly aunts, are bound to ask where I am.  You can rest assured, they will be told.

Now, where's that flame-thrower.......?
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He took my childhood in his stride, But he was gone when autumn came.
And still I dream he'll come to me, That we will live the years together.
But there are dreams that cannot be, And there are storms we cannot weather.
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« Reply #2536 on: June 09, 2013, 02:37:17 PM »
Glad to hear Simon has found an acceptable, to you both, solution, Glen!


(uhm.....may I suggest a teeny tiny little rainbow flag pin, instead of the maybe a tad too confrontational t-shirt...?  Roll Eyes)
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« Reply #2537 on: June 09, 2013, 03:26:56 PM »
I will mention the rainbow pin to Simon.  He will probably cringe, not because he is in the closet (he's not) but because neither of us sees ourselves particularly as gay 'activists'.  (I sometimes feel a tad guilty about this.)

Mind you, there's always a time and a place....... and this wedding just might be the place!
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And still I dream he'll come to me, That we will live the years together.
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« Reply #2538 on: June 09, 2013, 03:57:41 PM »
However sad it is, I'm kinda relieved to hear Simon isn't close to his brother. If he were, there probably would have been lots of very awkward situations over the years.

OTOH, if they were close, maybe he (the brother) would never have allowed those situations to become awkward in the first place.
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« Reply #2539 on: June 09, 2013, 07:37:42 PM »
Quote from: Heath4Ever on June 09, 2013, 03:26:56 PM
I will mention the rainbow pin to Simon.  He will probably cringe, not because he is in the closet (he's not) but because neither of us sees ourselves particularly as gay 'activists'.  (I sometimes feel a tad guilty about this.)

Mind you, there's always a time and a place....... and this wedding just might be the place!


It's little things like the pin that may not make us activists, but make us visible.  I hope that Simon wears the pin, and when people ask why he's wearing it, he tells them he's wearing it in honor of you, his partner for 20 years, but wasn't invited to attend the event.
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« Reply #2540 on: Yesterday at 01:59:23 PM »
I saw somebody post this on another board. It's an article about advertising to the LGBT community.

http://www.cbc.ca/undertheinfluence/season-1/2012/06/02/lgbt-advertising-chasing-the-pink-dollar/
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« Reply #2541 on: Today at 01:41:41 AM »
Really great and interesting article, Mark!
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