New breakthroughs have been happening in public awareness and recognition of polyamory. CNN, ABC's Nightline, MTV, bigtime evangelical media -- if you haven't kept up with Polyamory in the News (
http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com) in the last four months, here's some of what you've missed:
** Polyamory is “America's next romantic revolution,” claims Newsweek online. “It's enough to make any monogamist's head spin. But the traditionalists had better get used to it.” The magazine says the U.S. now has more than a half million poly households, but doesn't give a clear source for this number.
http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2009/07/newsweek-article-appears-at-least.html** The Newsweek author, a few days later, also mused on “the Feminist Roots of Polyamory.” “The key to poly relationships is gender equality, and women have been central to the creation of the practice.... The way these families make their relationships work is perhaps the most feminine of all: by good old-fashioned talking....”
http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2009/07/newsweek-author-feminist-roots-of.html** The president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary gives a big swath of the evangelical world an accurate, level-headed description of who we are and what we're about. Of course he's totally opposed. But with opponents like this, who needs allies?
http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2009/08/revelation-for-christians.html** Advice columnists pick up the poly hot potato everywhere from Dear Margo, Ask Abby, and Dear Amy to the Jewish Daily Forward.
http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2009/08/mainstreaming-in-dear-margo.htmlhttp://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-unhelpful-advice-columnists.htmlhttp://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-write-to-you-not-with-ink-but-with.html** Out and Proud, or TMI? A different kind of advice columnist, Dan Savage, addresses the question of how out should out polys choose to be.
http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/out-and-proud-or-tmi.html** MTV's hour-long documentary “I'm Polyamorous” turned out quite well, though one of the starring people gives us a behind-the-scenes account of how a lot of their best stuff got cut.
http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2009/09/mtv-poly-documentary.html** CNN treats polyamory as a real and significant alternative to monogamy in an article online and then the next day on TV.
http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/cnn-on-monogamy-and-poly-alternative.htmlhttp://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/mono-vs-poly-debated-on-cnn-tv.html** Poly Pride Day in New York: my report.
http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/report-from-poly-pride-day-in-new-york.html ** Win some, lose some, but gay marriage is coming. As settled, legally married pairs take center stage, will the gay movement abandon its relationship radicals?
http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/will-gay-marriage-leave-relationship.html** Plus print coverage from Britain, Poland, and Latin America -- and watch TV news coverage from Canada, Spain, and France.
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Happy November--
Alan
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