Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships

June 23, 2023

Alexis Bittar and Jack Miner Met at the Gym, Then Married a Few Blocks From It

Six months after seeing Alexis Bittar at the gym, Jack Miner remained intentionally “aloof” toward him. Once the silence was broken, a relationship and a family […]
February 8, 2023

I Promised God It Was the Last Time

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Sophia Lanman and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music “‘This is the last time,’ […]
June 24, 2022

What’s Two ‘Yentas’ Plus One Senator? A Lifetime Together.

Adam Topper and Jordan Manekin were set up in 2019 by two women they call “the yentas,” and later married by Senator Cory Booker. Soon after […]
April 5, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Quietly, Foolishly Eloped’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. She Chose Another Road I have a drawer full of magic. Serums, powders, […]
February 18, 2022

Theirs Was a Hollywood Beginning

Walter Wachter, a production manager, met James Pearse Connelly, a production designer, at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles, where both had moved to work in […]
June 23, 2021

Modern Love Podcast: The Right to Fail at Marriage

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher “I fought for our space and our rights alongside so many others, and in the end, […]
July 22, 2020

The Fight for Fertility Equality

While plenty of New Yorkers have formed families by gestational surrogacy, they almost certainly worked with carriers living elsewhere. Because until early April, paying a surrogate […]
June 16, 2020

Jericho Brown, Carmen Maria Machado and Thomas Page McBee on What Pride Means Now

This article is part of our latest Pride special report, featuring L.G.B.T.Q. voices on the challenges and possibilities of these troubled times. With protests in the […]
May 15, 2020

The Power of Naming for Queer Women

The Mrs. Files looks at history through a contemporary lens to see what the honorific “Mrs.” means to women and their identity. The actress Samira Wiley […]
December 7, 2017

3 Weddings, 4 Dozen Rabbis and 1,400 Cupcakes

There was no cocktail hour, no chicken dinner, no teary-eyed mothers and fathers, and no beaming grandparents. But this was a grand Jewish wedding celebration, which […]