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- Living without ever having to think twice, face, confront, engage, or cope with anything on this page. Heterosexuals can address these phenomena but social/political forces do not require you to do so.
- Marrying… which includes the following privileges:
- Public recognition and support for an intimate relationship (e.g. receiving cards or phone calls celebrating your commitments to another person; supporting activities and social expectations of longevity and stability for you committed relationship.)
- Paid leave from employment and condolences when grieving the death of your partner/lover i.e. legal members defined by marriage and descendants from marriages.
- Inheriting from your partner/lover/companion automatically under probation laws.
- Sharing health, auto, and homeowners’ insurance policies at reduced rates.
- Immediate access to your loved ones in cases of accident or emergency.
- Family-of-origin support for a life partner/lover/companion.
- Increased possibilities for getting a job, receiving on the job training and promotion.
- Kissing/hugging/being affectionate in public without threat or punishment.
- Talking about your relationship or what projects, vacations, family planning you and your partner/lover are creating.
- Not questioning your normalcy (sexually and culturally).
- Expressing pain when a relationship ends and having other people notice and attend to your pain.
- Adopting children, foster-parenting children.
- Being employed as a teacher in pre-school through high school without fear of being fired any day because you are assumed to corrupt children.
- Raising children without threats of state intervention, without children having to be worried which of their friends might reject them because of their mother or father’s sexuality and culture.
- Dating the person of your desire in your teen years.
- Living openly with your partner.
- Receiving validation from your religious community.
- Receiving social acceptance by neighbors, colleagues, and new friends.
- Not having to hide and lie about women-only/men only social activities.
- Working without always being identified by your sexuality/culture (e.g. you get to be a farmer, bricklayer, artist, etc. without being labeled the heterosexual farmer, the heterosexual teacher.)
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