We have rules, Scott and me, Jason says.
Alan has invited Jason for coffee after school drop-off, and Jason has just kissed him.
We set them up after we first got together, and kept them, Jason continues.
Credit: Joan Marcus
At first, it bothered Scott, so we went into therapy together.
Eventually, we sort of worked out an understanding.
Then we both decided we wanted to get married.
So they mostly come down to what I can and cannot do.
And fucking is definitely a cannot.
Alan, a writer, and his husband, Rob, a psychiatrist, are monogamous.
That last one must have taken a lot of negotiating, Alan says.
(Tammy Blanchard has a funny turn as Michaels paramour, a brash TV actress.)
That play, too, felt unusually contemporary, even if I never quite believed it.
(Who knows any deeply religious people among Manhattan gay men?)
On the other hand, its still stolid Lincoln Center Theater.
These are the gay men its audience knows.
When he finally tires of the rules hed so painstakingly negotiated with Jason, Scott explodes.
And anyway, he asks, isnt being normal the most radical thing of all?
In the end, Jason and Scotts rules dont protect them.
Alan and Robs normalcy does, in exactly the same way it does for their straight best friends.
At Lincoln Center, at least, thats how its bound to end up.
