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Death, Sex & Money

I Married the Gay Father of My Child

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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0:00.0

I really didn't want to be doing it alone. I was open to what other who else might be around

0:07.3

to support it, but I felt like really parenting where it's just you and the kid. That's very tough.

0:14.0

This is death, sex, and money.

0:18.0

Now he's got dead cops, dead robbers, dead civilians.

0:22.0

The show from WNYC about the things we think He's got dead cops, dead robbers, dead civilians.

0:22.8

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:25.9

Are you thinking about sex?

0:27.2

And need to talk about more.

0:28.8

Whenever you're quiet, you usually think about sex.

0:31.1

I'm Anna Sale. In one way Lucy Sexton's story is not so

0:40.0

unusual. Life whizzes past. A woman is 30, then in her mid 30s, and then in her late 30s. And then if kids are going to happen, it's really time. There are limits, though though to what you can control. I was married when I was

0:57.4

you know, I don't know, at 27 and then in my mid-30s I was like okay so let's have a

1:02.1

kid and then he didn't really want to and then in my late 30s that marriage broke up and I was really like

1:08.4

you know I really wanted a family I really wanted a kid and now I'm in my late 30s and without a partner and

1:19.2

way to have a child.

1:20.8

But what Lucy did have was a willingness to break the rules. She's a performance

1:26.6

artist and a dancer. What do you want? In the 1980s she was a fixture on the downtown New York scene.

1:34.4

These are real women, I'm sick of dicks.

1:37.6

As part of a duo called Dance Noise, she performed in black box theaters and

1:41.7

nightclubs. This is a show in the mid-80s at the

1:44.6

Pyramid, a center of club, dance, and art culture in New York's East Village.

1:48.8

Internationally renowned performance artist, let's give a big pyramid welcome to Dance Noise.

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