Same Sex Couples and Marriage: Negotiating Relational Landscapes with Families and Friends

摘要: Focusing on the decision to enter into a marriage and/or conduct commitment ceremony, this paper explores how same-sex couples negotiate their relationships with both family and friends at point which they make decisions about who invite ceremony. The ceremony is argued be ‘fateful moment’ lesbians gay men necessarily take stock of are meaningful them. It that data from qualitative interviews based add on-going debates meaning significance (given) families (chosen) for suggests it sociologically important recognise blurring boundaries between these categories as well meanings individuals themselves bring an understanding relationships.