"Report: No Gay People Actually Refer To Selves As 'Same-Sex Couple'"

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Report: No Gay People Actually Refer To Selves As 'Same-Sex Couple'

News in Brief • relationships • gay & lesbian • News • ISSUE 49•26 • Jun 26, 2013

WASHINGTON—Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic rulings on gay rights earlier in the day, a report issued Wednesday by the Human Rights Campaign reveals that not a single one of the nation’s millions of homosexuals actually refer to themselves and their partners as “same-sex couples.” “While the expression ‘same-sex couple’ is frequently incorporated into legislation, legal proceedings, and throughout the media, our research shows that this is not a term that even one gay person has ever used to describe his or her relationship,” said author of the report James Newcastle, 41, who noted that at no point in his own life has he referred to his boyfriend as his “same-sex partner.” “As the evidence demonstrates, whenever two gay people are engaged in a relationship, they usually just say something like, ‘We’re dating,’ or, ‘We’re married,’ or, ‘We’re a couple.’ They might, and it’s a big might, call themselves a ‘gay couple.’ But ‘same-sex couple’ is not a thing that normal people say.” Newcastle added, however, that a surprising number of such romantic pairs are now identifying themselves as a “queer dyad.”

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Excellent point. imo.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

1. That is because, after all is said and done, they really are just

a couple.

Till more people can get around the "same sex" thing, we will continue to hear that phrase.

But once it starts to slow down and come to disappear in main stream, we will know that people as a whole have made that jump from ignorance to understanding.