“What happens when polyamory becomes mainstream?” It’s not there yet, but the last three months of poly in the media suggest it’s coming faster than we've expected.
A major newspaper makes waves profiling “Love’s new frontier.” John Stewart’s “The Daily Show” highlights a poly group of three. Many advice columnists increasingly get it. Seven new polyamory books are in the authoring/publishing pipeline. If you haven't kept up with Polyamory in the News in the last three months (or subscribed to it by the LJ friends feed or other syndication service), here's some of what you missed:
Polyamory is “Love’s New Frontier,” according to the cover story of the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine a few weeks ago. “Polyamory has a decidedly feminist, free-spirited flavor, and these are real relationships with the full array of benefits and complexities — plus a few more — as the members of Poly Boston’s hypercommunicative, often erudite, and well-entwined community will explain....”
The author of that article appeared on the local Fox-TV affiliate for a remarkably respectful, thoughtful 5-minute interview. The female Fox interviewer concluded it by saying that polyamory was “not widely accepted yet, but interesting, and who knows what the future may bring?”
An Israeli report on a Loving More retreat in upstate New York. Sensitive and accurate. If you’ve wondered what Loving More’s annual rural retreats are like, read this. (Translated from Hebrew.)
Young poly news roundup, including college newspapers, TNG (The Next Generation) organizing, and analysis of the age-gap problems common in poly social communities.
Canadian polys organize to present their case in court against Canada’s sweeping (and currently unenforced) anti-polygamy and anti-polyamory law.
When does poly get too popular? When Britney Spears, The Gossip Girls, fashion-design marketers, and other role models for the too-easily influenced think it’s a trend to climb on board.
The world’s largest-circulation English-language newspaper, a tacky British tab, runs a long, positive, not-tacky feature article on a long-term poly family titled “Love is 1 man, 3 women and a bed built for 5”. Which gets reprinted all over the world.
I've done 371 of these reports in the last five years. They're sorted in the archive by topic, date, and sometimes location. I hope you have as much fun browsing them as I have creating them!
