BY SUSIE WILSON
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
SEX MATTERS
When we think about love in the summer of 2010, the Chelsea Clinton-Marc Mezvinsky nuptials will come to most people's minds. But close on their heels is another couple: the lesbians Nic and Jules (played respectively by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) in the popular summer movie The Kids Are All Right.
I know: One couple is real and the other is a screenwriter's creation. But the two became linked in my mind at a dinner party conversation in a lovely New Jersey garden a few weeks ago.
It was the evening of the Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding. My husband and I were dining with two other couples on a beautiful, balmy night, and I offered a toast to Clinton and Mezvinsky, who were being married at that very moment. Everyone responded with gusto, raising their wine glasses, sending them best wishes for a long, happy, healthy, and loving life together.
With lovers on my mind, I asked my friends whether they had seen The Kids. I was the only one who had seen it, but I was glad I brought it up, since it led to a conversation about gays and lesbians that none of us might have had.
