You're listening to Sex and Politics at Savage. Love.

Sex and politics.

We've taken a lot of calls here over the years from friends who are thinking about having a baby together,

a gay man and his lesbian best friend, as well as calls from people who are worried about being

outed as polly or kinky or who have just been outed as polly or kinky and have lost custody

of their kids or might lose custody of their kids or have already lost their jobs.

And also calls from people who are wondering how

they can protect their secondary or even tertiary partners in their wills. And my go-to guest expert

in all of these cases, Diana Adams, they're an attorney in New York who specializes in protecting

LGBTQ people and polyamorous people and their partners. In some cases, like the friends who want to co-parent,

Diana helps people create and protect their families, but also protect themselves. They're the

founder of Diana Adams Law and Mediation, a boutique law firm in New York City, specializing in

same-sex couples, platonic co-parents, polyamorous families, and also the executive

director of Chosen Family Law Center. This is Sex and Politics, a special bonus podcast we do.

It's Savage Lovecast for our Magnum subscribers. You, if you can hear the sound of my voice right now,

are not yet a magnum subscriber, but we wanted to share some of my conversation with

Diana Adams with you to give you a little taste of what sex and politics is all about and to

tempt you to become a magnum sub. Like I said, Diana's been on the lovecast a lot because they're

the perfect person to turn to with questions about forming families that fall outside the heteronormative

mold and the homonormative mold too. But I wanted to invite them on, sex and politics, because after

so many years of talking with Diana about other people's problems, I was really curious about their

journey. What attracted them as a working class kid to studying the law,

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