2019-06-20
20 分钟Modern.
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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
Last week, our team brought a live performance of the Modern Love podcast to the Provincetown Film Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
John Cameron Mitchell joined us for the performance.
He created, directed, and starred in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
His new musical podcast is called Anthem Homunculus.
Here he is reading Effie Stampler's essay platonic until Death do us part.
Recently, I stumbled across an article about Stephen Daldry, the man behind the hours, and Billy Elliot, who's openly gay and married his longtime friend, a woman and a director in her own right named Lucy Sexton.
Now, Stephen, now 55, married Lucy at 41 because he wanted to have and raise a child and have health insurance.
According to him, their relationship is not and never was romantic.
It's a marriage rooted in practicality.
How fiddler on the roof, I thought.
And my next thought, how sad.
Another gay man who can't fully accept himself.
I recall the Hollywood films I've seen about these men and their surrogate partners and how in the end, the guy gets the guy, the girl learns her lesson, and the credits roll to some terrible Motown remake.
I also thought about my gay friends with their husbands of 20 plus years and the unsolicited advice they often give to me about my own relationship future.