A History of the Unmarried
2014
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In A History of the Unmarried, Lambda Award winner Stephen S. Mills questions the idea of marriage—as a right, as a relationship, as a contract. Mills juxtaposes the lives of housewives—from his mother to Mad Men’s Betty Draper—with the lives of gay men—from Raymond Burr, to Frank O'Hara, to the poet himself. He explores his own conflicting thoughts about marriage against the backdrop of the political fight for marriage equality over the last decade. He asks, “...what does it mean to become / a housewife voluntarily? /.../ And what does it mean to be married / yet remain queer?”
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Author
Stephen S. Mills
Author · 4 books
Stephen S. Mills is the author of the Lambda Award-winning book He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012) and A History of the Unmarried (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014). He earned his MFA from Florida State University. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, PANK, The New York Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, Knockout, The Rumpus, and others. He is also the winner of the 2008 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Poetry Award and the 2014 Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction. His third poetry collection Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution is now available from Sibling Rivalry Press. He lives in New York City.
