Diane Olson (R) and Robin Taylor (L) cut the cake at their wedding ceremony in stylish white suits.
Yesterday I "crash booked" (aka generated forty minutes of programming in four hours) a show about same sex marriage. Before yesterday I hadn't given the story much thought, but after reading, writing and chatting about gay marriage for the majority of my day yesterday (not to mention screening your calls for 45 minutes straight), I found myself drawn to articles of same-sex newlyweds this morning... And of course I was particularly drawn to, as in any wedding, the photos. And this is when it gets interesting.
I was touched by the little old ladies on the cover of the New York Times and the Washington Times. I was loving the coordinated white suits on the cover of the L.A. Times and the inside of the Washington Post, but what I didn't see were the images of Gay America that, thanks to pop culture and film, I can describe with one word: "fabulous" (see: pride parades, Elton John and The Bird Cage). The L. A. Times addresses the image consciousness of same-sex newlyweds. An article describes the low-key weddings as strategic, that same sex marriage doesn't sit well with a lot of Americans and so the weddings are trying to veer more Will & Grace than Hedwig. Personally, same sex or not, in the sea of pant-suits that is downtown Washington, DC, a little glitter could go a long way.
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