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Love Story, written by Dean Spade

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transcript

Two anthropomorphized animals (dogs?) in a park talking to each other. 

1: It feels so good to be with you.

2: Yes, I am really enjoying being in love with you. 

1: Let’s never get married.

2: Yes, let’s never.

1: I don’t believe that registering with the state, or spending a lot of money on an event, would make our relationship better.

2: I only want us to stay together as long as it is good for us both.

1: Sometimes I feel worried and scared about our relationship ending.

2: Sometimes I feel like I want to own you.

1: Sometimes I think about how my parents might feel better about me being queer and trans if I got married. Plus I might get some new towels.

2: I am glad we are queer. And we can talk about these feelings instead of just reacting to them. I want to move past competitive, fearful feelings about sex and love that make me miserable. Do you think we should go to the weddings and committment ceremonies that some of our friends are having?

1: I don’t know.

2: I love our friends, and want to be at their parties. But I feel a lot of grief about it.

1: Me too. 

2: Totally.

1: I want a world where romantic relationships are not privileged over other kinds of friendships. Where we don’t make empty promises about forever.

2: Me too.

1: I love having non-marital sex with you.

2: Me too. It feels hard for me to be at events that cost thousand of dollars, when I thought our friends were committed to fighting capitalism and redistributing wealth.

1: Do you think we should go?

2: I love our friends, but I don’t want to go to events that feel painful, silencing, and depressing to me. 

1: It’s not that fun.

2: I hate it when people say that gay marriage will disrupt gender and family roles, because gay people will bring something new to marriage.

1: Oh yeah, I hate that too.

2: It feels like what is happening is the wedding industrial complex has got gay and lesbian people in its clutches and they are all building desires for exploring expensive fantasy.

1: It is so awful that people keep saying this is an issue of equality. There is nothing equal about the state privileging certain relationships over others.

2: If we want equality, we should get rid of marriage, and make it so that no one has to have their immigration status, health care access, or parenthood depend on being married.

1: You are so hot.

2: Let’s dry hump before we go to the beach. Okay?