{"id":40556,"date":"2016-07-02T14:25:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T18:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/14-reasons-same-sex-engagements-are-better-than-straight-ones\/"},"modified":"2016-07-02T14:25:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T18:25:46","slug":"14-reasons-same-sex-engagements-are-better-than-straight-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/14-reasons-same-sex-engagements-are-better-than-straight-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Reasons Same-Sex Engagements Are Better Than Straight Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>14 Reasons Same-Sex Engagements Are Better Than Straight Ones<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/?attachment_id=411504\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-411504\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2016\/04\/unnamed-3-670x670.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed-3\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We asked comedian Yuri Kagan, (top, right) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/ten-things-you-should-know-about-gay-bars-from-a-castro-bartender-20141020\">former Castro bartender<\/a>, to come up a list of the benefits of marriage freedom after&nbsp;getting engaged to&nbsp;his beau, Rich Sherman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yuri&rsquo;s 10 reasons being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> and engaged rocks&hellip; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. The Gifts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/?attachment_id=411499\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-411499\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-5.57.09-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-07 at 5.57.09 PM\" width=\"420\" height=\"467\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second you announce you are engaged, everyone gives you their opinion along with free stuff. We have been engaged for a minute now. We got both an espresso machine and a milk frother. Everyone is even more generous because we have been denied for so long&ndash;even if the gifts&nbsp;are maybe not always be keepers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> <strong>There is no pressure to get pregnant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/?attachment_id=411501\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-411501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-6.07.08-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-07 at 6.07.08 PM\" width=\"500\" height=\"511\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Need I say more?<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. There are no rules<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-8.40.15-AM-670x386.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 8.40.15 AM\" width=\"650\" height=\"374\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"2457155686\"><\/p>\n<p>Stay as traditional as you want or think out of the box. Our role models for&nbsp;what same-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a>&nbsp;marriage looks like are few and far between. For this reason we can do whatever we want at our weddings. If we want to have chiseled <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> in shorty-shorts serving body shots it&rsquo;s totally okay. Have troupe of your favorite drag queens entertain with Liza&rsquo;s finest or Judy&rsquo;s best is completely acceptable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.&nbsp;You, too, can be a&nbsp;gold-digger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2012\/01\/calvinnickgruber-450x403.jpg\"><br \/>\nIt&rsquo;s not just for straights anymore! If you can&rsquo;t find love at least get your bills paid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Great excuse to turn down unwanted&nbsp;dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/?attachment_id=411506\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-411506\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2016\/04\/girls-dancing-360x238.jpeg\" alt=\"girls-dancing-360x238\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When straight <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girls<\/a> at <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> bars&nbsp;come up to tell you that their lonely, frumpy <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> buddy with no social skills thinks you&rsquo;re cute (as they for some reason love to do), watch their puzzled faces as you say you&rsquo;re engaged. They will either get way more excited than you about the prospect of a stranger getting married, or they will completely ignore what you just said and keep trying to fix you up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Change the&nbsp;world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The more of us that marry and do &ldquo;normal&rdquo; people things, like raise kids and pay taxes, the more bigots get confronted with the fact that they actually have no choice but to love us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Pay less&nbsp;tax<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>8. We own&nbsp;weddings anyway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/?attachment_id=411507\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-411507\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2016\/04\/celebration-0035-670x444-670x444.jpg\" alt=\"celebration-0035-670x444\" width=\"650\" height=\"431\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whenever someone trots out&nbsp;the stupid argument that same-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> marriage is redefining marriage you can easily point out the holes in this theory. First off, marriage has been getting redefined since its conception and now <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> have rights. Second, let this idiot&nbsp;know that&nbsp;Keystone Light is not really beer and&nbsp;that&nbsp;<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people have been planning everyone else&rsquo;s wedding for millennia. We invented weddings really when it comes down to it&ndash;but now we get to plan our own in addition to everyone else&rsquo;s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.<\/strong> Now that you&rsquo;re engaged you can stop using the awkward word &ldquo;partner&rdquo;&nbsp;unless you are actually in&nbsp;business with your spouse.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/?attachment_id=411498\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-411498\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-5.53.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-07 at 5.53.48 PM\" width=\"427\" height=\"467\"><\/a>10.<\/strong> You get to find out what your friends actually think of your spouse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11.<\/strong> You will be entitled to spousal privilege, which means that if your spouse kills someone, you can&rsquo;t be put on the stand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12.<\/strong> Show the world that <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>, straight, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> are all just people who want to be treated equally. Except&nbsp;in outfits because we&nbsp;want to look better&ndash;that&rsquo;s just how we&nbsp;roll.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/?attachment_id=411505\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-411505\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2016\/04\/unnamed-10-360x188.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed-10-360x188\" width=\"360\" height=\"188\"><\/a>13.<\/strong> You can now lecture and judge your single friends about how you envy them or how they don&rsquo;t understand because they have never been married.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14.<\/strong> You can now refer to your spouse as the&nbsp;old battle-axe, just like old <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a>-straight comics of yesteryear.<\/p>\n<p><em>Catch Yuri weekly at San Francisco&rsquo;s Oasis for #Shittalk and&nbsp;his book,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vodka-Limelight-Yuri-Kagan-ebook\/dp\/B00OBWUL48\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1412892338&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=yuri+kagan\"><em>Vodka &amp; Limelight, on Amazon<\/em><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=fTtbWh-3w54:vXMw11Reo0g:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=fTtbWh-3w54:vXMw11Reo0g:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/fTtbWh-3w54\/14-reasons-sex-engagements-better-straight-ones-20160702\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/fTtbWh-3w54\/14-reasons-sex-engagements-better-straight-ones-20160702<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 Reasons Same-Sex Engagements Are Better Than Straight Ones We asked comedian Yuri Kagan, (top, right) former Castro bartender, to come up a list of the benefits of marriage freedom after&nbsp;getting engaged to&nbsp;his beau, Rich Sherman. Yuri&rsquo;s 10 reasons being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> and engaged rocks&hellip; 1. The Gifts The second you announce you are engaged, everyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/14-reasons-same-sex-engagements-are-better-than-straight-ones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">14 Reasons Same-Sex Engagements Are Better Than Straight Ones<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>14 Reasons Same-Sex Engagements Are Better Than Straight Ones - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/14-reasons-same-sex-engagements-are-better-than-straight-ones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"14 Reasons Same-Sex Engagements Are Better Than Straight Ones - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"14 Reasons Same-Sex Engagements Are Better Than Straight Ones We asked comedian Yuri Kagan, (top, right) former Castro bartender, to come up a list of the benefits of marriage freedom after&nbsp;getting engaged to&nbsp;his beau, Rich Sherman. 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