2018-04-12
21 分钟Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
What makes someone a significant other, and does it have to be a romantic other?
Laurence Forbes explores the gray areas in his essay a brother as significant as any other.
It's read by Jeffrey Boyer Chapman, who stars in the Lifetime show Unreal and hosts the podcast conversations with others I.
Was flying high when my younger brother was hired to sling baggage for a major airline, only to be grounded when I learned that siblings didn't qualify for flight benefits.
But I was thankful when Jeff found a loophole.
Family benefits were not just for spouses but also for significant others.
Knowing I would never be the former, he listed me as the latter after a stream of gay themed jokes about how our union would save my brother from military service.
My maiden name dilemma should I use Forbes or Forbes?
Forbes and a sitcom idea for Black Entertainment television featuring my straight sibling and me, his homosexual brother.
I wrote down his employee number.
I waited for the paperwork to go through before using his name, and when it came time to book my first trip, I called the reservation line and announced I'm the significant other of an employee.
When the agent asked for the employee's name and mine, I told him the truth.
Jeff Forbes and Lawrence Forbes.
I don't know what the agent thought of our shared surname.
Maybe he assumed that when you're gay and can't marry, you sometimes take your lover's last name.