U.S.: Could gay marriage prevent failed straight marriages?
- It’s like you hit a brick wall when they come out. You think everything is fine and then, boom!
- Kimberly Brooks • Describing the humiliation she went through when her ex-husband, Robert Webb, came out. Many advocates of gay marriage, particularly spouses of men and women who later came out, argue that if the stigma that went with gay relationships went away, situations like Brooks’ could be avoided. Brooks, for her part, regards her role in the ending relationship as “collateral damage.” • source