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Marriage Envy
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My title is not original. It is borrowed from an article by Diana Schaub (1996) that was published in The Public Interest, in which Schaub reviews author Andrew Sullivan's Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality, one of the first of many treatises that would appear in favor of the legalization of gay marriage. Oddly, Schaub does not at any point interrogate the concept of marriage envy, or even name it again, which leaves the phrase to hover over the entirety of her article, subtly sitting in judgment, perhaps, of the motivations for Sullivan's book. Although it remains undefined, the term "marriage envy" nevertheless has the troubling effect of transforming Sullivan's measured …
