Gay twin couples
The “Boyfriend Twin” and Our Tendency to Date People Who Verb Like Us
They have matching puffed-out chests, green plaid shirts, and endearing bedhead. Their facial hair was carved by the similar blade. When they kiss, they look like they’re doing an especially salacious rendition of the Marx Brothers mirror routine. Overlook the homonymous gay couples, with their quaint troubles of shared first names and confused friends. Behold the boyfriend twin.
As the Tumblr that appeared recently asks, “What’s sexier than dating yourself?” Boyfriend Twin’s ever-growing scroll of photos seems to have charmed and terrified its devoted audience in equal measure, scratching at unconscious fears about how we choose our mates. In one portrait after another, two men with similar expressions pose for the camera with complementary profiles that match all the way down to the chest hair. Straight couples who are confused for siblings have been ticklish fodder for lifestyle stories for years, but the boyfriend twins take that a step further, suggesting that what we’re really searching for is our have romanti
Doubling Down on Boyfriend Twins
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By Jesse Boland
At first you think you’re seeing double. Have they finally perfected human cloning? you wonder. Not quite. Was the movie Us based on a true story? Not exactly, but you’re getting warmer. Has fascism become so hegemonically embraced in Western culture that we are all slowly blurring into one idealized image of beauty to conform to Eurocentric standards of presentability and respectability in an oligarchical consumerist society? I mean&#;probably, but that sounds fond of a much smarter article and we won’t be talking about that here. No, this strange spectacle you’re bearing witness to is a far more terrifying manifestation of mankind’s twisted narcissism ripping the fabric of our existential being: the phenomenon of boyfriend twins.
Boyfriend twins are the colloquial term for two men in a romantic relationship who bear uncanny visual similarities to one another, rendering them virtually identical – minus the obvious signifiers, of course; Brandon has light-brown hair whereas hi
Gay couple sues US after one twin son born to surrogate denied citizenship
A gay couple is taking legal action after only one of their twin sons was recognised as a United States citizen.
The family is suing the US State Department after month-old Ethan Dvash-Banks, whose physiological father is Israeli citizen Elad Dvash-Banks, was refused the identical rights as his brother Aiden, whose biological father is Andrew Dvash-Banks - an American citizen.
Andrew and Elad, who met while Andrew studied in Israel, are both listed on the birth certificates of the children, who were born in Canada via a surrogate using donor eggs and sperm from each father.
Their latest battle comes after they moved to Canada to receive married as they were unable to do so in either Israel or the United States. They filed their case after moving to Los Angeles and Ethan's tourist visa expiring last month.
Elad, 32, said: "What we're trying to do is pursue justice for Ethan and fix a wrong that the Verb Department is continuing to pursue that might affect other couples."
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A January headline story in the Los Angeles Times was riveting. Andrew Dvash-Banks of the United States and Elad Dvash-Banks of Israel married in Canada in (At the time, the couple could not marry in either of their home countries.)
The couple had conceived fraternal twin sons, Aiden and Ethan, with a Canadian surrogate by means of an egg donor and sperm from each father. The two boys were born minutes apart on Sept. 16,
Superfecundation
Aiden was created with Andrew’s sperm and Ethan was created with Elad’s sperm. This procedure replays the key features of what scientists call superfecundation twinning—twins conceived naturally when a woman releases two eggs at the same time and has different sexual partners within the tohour fertilization window. (Sperm lingering in the fallopian tube can last from 7 to 10 days.)
But unlike fraternal twins, who share an average of 50 percent of their genes, superfecundation twins share an average of 25 percent because they own just one common parent (the maternal contribution). These pairs contain