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The Very Thought Of Him - February 29, 2008

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Quotes & Quips - MJS

"Now I believe it when people say love is blind... because I must have been blind to have loved him." - MJS

Three Gay Couples Settle In As Parents

Outside of these three households, an American culture war rages over the rights of gay men and women to raise children.

Pound Ridge residents Gregg Cartagine, right, and his partner, Reed Chaikin, left, both 45, have been raising their son, Travis Chaikin, center, since he was born to a surrogate mother 10 years ago.

The statistics: Nationwide, 162,000 same-sex couples - about one in three of all gay female couples and one in five of all male couples who declared their relationship on census forms - were raising children at the end of the last decade, according to the 2000 census.

Inside the contemporary wood-paneled house at 44 Ebenezer Lane in Pound Ridge, Travis Chaikin is finishing a pasta dinner and settling into Book One of the Bartimaeus Trilogy, an adventure book he is reading in his fifth-grade English class.

Over the next hour or so, he bounces between the book and a Nintendo Wii video game on an oversized TV in the living room, where he squeezes between his parents on the couch as he works the controls. "Reading he's good at," says Reed Chaikin, Travis' father. "Writing and spelling are the tough ones."

Quotes & Quips - William Arthur Ward

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward

"Unfortunate Gay Relationship Cookies"

For all of our readers who have experienced a not-so-nice gay relationship break-up, start to empower yourself - these clips are for you.  Feel free to use them, save them, or send them. And remember, you are much better off without the jerk who dumped you.

"Unfortunate Gay Relationship Cookies" are original humor clips, many inspired by actual real life situations and edited or written by the editor of GAYTWOGETHER. Thank you for all of your emails, comments and suggestions. If you would like to send your ideas to us, please email us at gaytwogether@gmail.com

Picturing Guys Twogether - February 26, 2008

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Quotes & Quips - W.J. Bryan

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice." - W.J. Bryan

Gay Relationships: Finding That Someone - Fast!

Sick of seeking dates in the bar? Dodging cliched come-ons over the Web? Try the Joe Kort-approved McDonald's approach.  We can pretend that we're Sandra Bullock, and one day - just one day - we'll meet someone by saving them from becoming train-track mush. We can keep hoping that we'll find an unrivaled connection on some deserted mountain like Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist. Or we can do it the McDonald's way.  Mark Hamel did.

After coming out recently, the Fenton restaurant owner didn't know a single gay soul. It must've been serendipitous then that he stumbled upon an advertisement during Motor City Pride that promoted a September speed-dating event at Ferndale's Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center, which will host an all-lesbian one on Feb. 23, because he walked away with a new friend - and a man. But don't think he wasn't nervous going in. He was.  "My greatest fear was that the room would be full of 18 year olds," says Hamel, 40.

And had he known that Affirmations' social and enrichment coordinator Maureen Jones' intentions were to reach a younger crowd - those in the 20-to-30 age range who had been calling and asking about singles event - he might not have signed up. Lucky him: It wasn't a total bust, and his anxiety subsided when he noticed the men were closer to his age, and that everyone was kind. He still had one major concern.

"I found myself thinking that three minutes is really not enough time to get to know someone, but I guess that wasn't the point," he says....

Unfortunate Gay Relationship Cookies

For all of our readers who have experienced a not-so-nice gay relationship break-up, start to empower yourself - these clips are for you.  Feel free to use them, save them, or send them. And remember, you are much better off without the jerk who dumped you, if you don't feel it now, you will.

"Unfortunate Gay Relationship Cookies" are original humor clips, many inspired by actual real life situations and edited or written by the editor of GAYTWOGETHER. Thank you for all of your emails, comments and suggestions. If you would like to send your ideas to us, please email us at gaytwogether@gmail.com