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Love TimeLine

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November/December 1996
By Libby Stephens, Utne Reader 
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Unable to find any law prohibiting same-sex marriage, Clela Rorex, a county clerk in Boulder Colorado, marries Dave Zamora and Ave McCord. Five more same-sex couples come to Rorex to be wed. When an angry cowboy walks in with his fiancee, an 8-year-old mare, Rorex refuses to grant the marriage--noting that the horse is underage.

1976

Punk rockers don't care. Sid Vicious says, "I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror."

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1980-81

Sex gets scary when a few doctors begin noticing rare forms of pneumonia and cancer killing young gay men. Homophobia rises to new heights. Soon it becomes clear that this infectious disease, AIDS, is not exclusive to homosexual males. Within 5 years, there are 40,000 patients. Condom Nation emerges.

1984

In a world increasingly fearful of promiscuity, Milan Kundera writes about the difference between lust and love in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: "Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman)."

1996

Marriage is hip, but the ground's still shaky. Town & Country magazine launches a Web site dedicated to The Big Day (http://tncweddings.women.com/tc/). In an arranged Muslim marriage, Hakeem Olajuwon of the Houston Rockets weds 18-year-old Dalia Asafi. The artist formerly known as Prince marries dancer Mayte Garcia on Valentine's Day. Another prince, however, breaks it off with his princess--Charles and Di divorce in a manner only a bit more civil than the royal beheadings of centuries past.

Cover story, November/December 1996.

 

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