EDGE Atlanta

There’s a new con game in town: it’s called Oxycontin. It’s just as ingenious and criminal as the con games of old. And I was completely fleeced by it.

I have to say that our wedding could not have been more perfect.

I think I can safely say that Kevin and I had a strange bachelor party - after all, who else in our community can claim that they partied with two hundred straight people, ate ribs off the bone, and had an audience with a monarch who politely suggested they hold off getting gay married until November 4th in hopes that their upcoming nuptuals do not push another Republican into the White House?

I keep joking with Kevin that for each of the five hours after our wedding begins, I’m going to poke him and remind him that we just spend another three grand. It’s kind of my way of dealing with the incredulity of a $15k party.

Twelve days out from the big moment... and the question on everyone’s mind (apparently) is this: where the $#&* does one get a same-sex wedding card?

My partner has two nieces and a nephew, and their parents won’t allow them to attend his gay wedding.

In 2004, an amazing occurrence in Massachusetts revolutionized the gay marriage fight across the nation.

Well, we ordered our wedding license today. I say "ordered" because here in Boston, you fill out forms and pay $50, and then have to return to pick up your license.

A few months ago a member of my family flippantly called me an atheist; nothing could be further from the truth. After all, the quiet simplicity of faith does not require evangelizing, ever; I hold that a religion that proclaims its truths to be of greater value than those of the individual (even if the individual believes in no god at all) is merely on the path to converting the weak or unthinking - not a glamorous pursuit.

Did you think I was talking about boys in underwear? You wish. Today was the first day that gifts began to arrive on our doorstep. Four packages from Crate and Barrel were dropped on the stoop, trundled up the stairs by Kevin, and then opened.