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growing here at home. Aside from finding likeminded men nearby (the app includes
a GPS component like Gindr and the gang), you can tap into and share LGBT-focused
new stories on its companion website UnicornBooty.com; discover local queer hotspots
around your home and when you're traveling; and keep your social calendar lit with
curated homocentric events.
Handmade Sexy Time. My boyfriend and I are adventurous, especially when it
comes to our bodies and bedroom activity, and we had an arousing at-home date night
with Haus of Betch's hand-crocheted jock straps. It was like Captain America himself
was calling me hither in his blue three-starred weiner basket (sorry, no photos) and an
arts-and-crafts project making vibrating dildos of our own dicks with kits from Clone-A-
Willy. The latter was a bit stressful because the process moved ultra-fast — we had to get
and stay hard while mixing the plaster at an exact 90 degrees and cast our cocks in under
three minutes! — but we shared laughs along the way, amazing sex afterward, and now
we've got life-size replicas of our own wieners that we'll probably just use to go fuck
ourselves whenever we have a tiff. (Sorry, still no photos). ■
— Mikey Rox
BOOK REVIEW: Wedding belle
Equally Wed by Kirsten Palladino, fore-
word by Lance Bass and Michael Turchin
(Seal Press 2017) $17.99; 263 pp.
Like many people, Kirsten Palladino grew
up dreaming of The Perfect Wedding. She
pictured it, but making it happen started
out wrong: when she got engaged to her
now-wife, Maria, and went looking for help
getting started, she could only find books
for straight couples. That was definitely not
going to work, so the Palladinos created an
online wedding magazine ... and eventually
this book.
So what if you just got engaged? As you
might guess, there’s a lot of planning that
goes into a wedding, starting with whom
(and how) you tell about it. Palladino advo-
cates being gentle with family members who
may feel uncomfortable. She says, “give
them some time” and know how to decide to
invite them or not.
Time management will be your friend in
this process, so find a system that works for
you and be faithful to it. Keep phone num-
bers, contracts, ideas, lists, worksheets, and
budgets in the same place, and keep track of
all gifts received. Take a look at Palladino’s
list of possible items needed, then remember
that nothing there is mandatory.
Decide on the kind of wedding you want,
the venue you’ve dreamed about, and the
size of your ceremony. Remember that age
and gender of attendants isn’t cast in stone,
and the only requisite for attire is comfort.
Know what questions to ask the “wedding
pros” you need to make your day special:
a planner, photographer, videographer, the
officiant, baker, bartenders, and your DJ. Re-
member that flowers are optional or you both
can carry bouquets; in fact, your decorations
and what you carry down the aisle can be
anything unique to the two of you. Person-
alize the ceremony in ways that make you
happy; there are all kinds of options and it’s
"An invaluable resource with a unique perspective." —CARLEY RONEY, cofounder of The Knot
— The Ultimate Guide to Planning —
YOUR LGBTQ+ WEDDING
EQUALLY
WED
KIRSTEN PALLADINO
Foreword by Lance Bass and Michael Turchin
your wedding.
Ever since you were small, you’ve
dreamed of getting married but, if you don’t
have a model to follow, it can be hard to
know where to start and where to get what
you want. Equally Wed shows prospective
“grides” and “brooms” the path.
Beginning with gender-neutral terms for
wedding participants, Palladino progresses
through the year-plus-long preparations for
the Perfect Wedding, and beyond. Prospec-
tive newlyweds will find lists and bullet-points
that are useful and reminders for things they
may never have considered, including ideas
that may seem to fall into an “over-the-top”
category. Still, she stresses that individu-
alization is what makes a wedding special
and that “Something will go wrong on your
wedding day,” but nobody can ruin it unless
you let them.
This is an easy-to-use book that covers all
bases, from “will you?” to “I do.” If there’s a
wedding in your future and you need a start-
ing point, Equally Wed is a big “Yes!”
— Terri Schlichenmeyer
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Nash, Tammye. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 2017, newspaper, July 21, 2017; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1007165/m1/23/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.