Washington Post - Samantha Wynn Greenstone knows her husband is gay, okay?
She knew he was gay when they met in a San Diego production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” She knew he was gay when he proposed. She knew he was gay when they got married in November.
“If anything, I think we are taking the sanctity of marriage to a whole new level,” said Greenstone, 38, smiling widely as she sat beside her husband, Jacob Hoff, 32, at their home in Los Angeles.
Yes, she’s pregnant. Yes, it’s his. And yes — if you must know how they conceived — in Greenstone’s words, “we birds’d and we bees’d.”
Hoff and Greenstone are part of a small but growing community of people who are opening up on social media about their nontraditional permutations of partnership, amending “marriage” with clarifying adjectives such as “platonic,” “queerplatonic,” “aromantic” or “mixed-orientation.”
“We are a little different than the conventional definition, because I’m openly talking about it,” Hoff said. “We’re like the Version 2.0.”
Maybe you could say the same of Barry Diller, who recently confirmed that he is both gay and happily married to Diane von Fürstenberg. Or Tricia Cooke, who spoke openly about being a lesbian married to Ethan Coen while promoting their movies “Drive-Away Dolls” and “Honey Don’t!”
Hoff and Greenstone have turned their marriage into a career. Social media is Hoff’s main source of income. (Greenstone also works as a personal assistant.) They spend much of their day making videos and responding to skeptics, supporters and other curious commenters.
“We found a whole group of people who had never heard of us before who were just like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m in this relationship and I didn’t know that there were others like me out there!’” Greenstone said.
“You also get the people who are like: ‘I have a gay best friend. Do you think we’re in love?’” Greenstone said. “And we have to be like …”
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