"The lavender marriage that administrative convenience and PR fiction of golden age Hollywood is back. The Washington Post recently covered its reinvention, meeting Jacob Hoff, who's gay, and Samantha Greenstone, who's straight, a blissfully married couple with a baby on the way (they birds'd and bees'd Greenstone explained for the pruriently curious). The Post also spoke to friends April Lexi Lee and Sheree Wong, both on the asexual spectrum, who say they bestied so hard we got married platonically."
"these people aren't in it for appearances. Hoff and Greenstone don't like the term: It cheapens what we really have, which is a love match, Greenstone says. But lavender marriage has been co-opted online as a shorthand for different forms of loving, committed relationships that do not centre conventional romance and sexual desire, both as jokey aspiration and lived experience."
Lavender marriage, once an administrative PR fiction of Hollywood's golden age, has reemerged in contemporary forms that prioritize nonsexual or nonromantic commitment. Some couples marry as a love match regardless of conventional sexual orientation, while others enter platonic marriages on the asexual spectrum. The historical purpose was to confer heteronormative respectability, but modern participants often seek genuine emotional partnership rather than appearances. The label lavender marriage feels reductive to some, prompting alternative terms like platonic life partners and rainbow marriage. Public and familial reactions vary across generations, and critics sometimes question why such partnerships pursue legal marriage.
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