Platonic, Until Death Do Us Part | With John Cameron Mitchell

Modern Love

The New York Times

Storytelling, Nytimes, Nyt, Redemption, New York Times, Society & Culture, Loss, Essay, Love

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when you're struggling to find a romantic relationship as deep as the relationship you have with your best friend? John Cameron Mitchell ("Anthem: Homunculus") reads Ephi Stempler's essay about a man considering a platonic life partnership.

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...
0:05.0	Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston.
0:18.0	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:23.0	The New York Times and WBUR Boston.
0:28.0	Stories of love, loss and redemption.
0:32.0	I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.
0:41.0	Last week, our team brought a live performance of the Modern Love Podcast to the Provincetown Film Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
0:50.0	John Cameron Mitchell joined us for the performance.
0:53.0	He created, directed and starred in, Headwig and the Angry Inge.
0:57.0	His new musical podcast is called Anthem Homunculus.
1:00.0	Here he is, reading Effie Stempler's essay, Plotonic, Until Death to Us Part.
1:15.0	Recently, I stumbled across an article about Stephen Dahlgrey.
1:19.0	The man behind the hours and Billy Elliott, who's openly gay, and married his longtime friend,
1:25.0	a woman and a director in her own right, named Lucy Sexton.
1:30.0	Now, Stephen now 55 married Lucy at 41 because he wanted to have and raise a child and have health insurance.
1:40.0	According to him, the relationship is not and never was romantic.
1:44.0	It's a marriage rooted in practicality.
1:48.0	How fiddler on the roof, I thought.
1:51.0	And my next thought, how sad.
1:54.0	Another gay man who can't fully accept himself.
1:58.0	I recall the Hollywood films I've seen about these men and their surrogate partners and how in the end the guy gets the guy,
2:05.0	the girl learns her lesson, and the credits roll to some terrible Motown remake.
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