Cary Gitter texted his friend Sylvia Khoury out of the blue in September 2017 to ask about her friend Meghan VanArsdalen. “Hey, whatever happened to your friend Meghan,” he asked, one Saturday evening while at a West Village bar in Manhattan. Ms. Khoury, a noted playwright, had in fact tried to casually set them up…
Christopher Michael Repotski and Michael Sean McClenney have been traveling to Provincetown, Mass., for Labor Day every year since 2016. So, it made perfect sense for their wedding to be there, too, with tea dances and parasols included. The couple, who now reside in Atlanta, met while in the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus. Mr. Repotski,…
Establishing a joint Google calendar may not be a standard marker of a flourishing romance, but for Efrain Guerrero and James Jones, it stood in just fine for a more customary expression of commitment. The two men met in September 2017 through the dating app Scruff, and had their first date at Rendezvous, a restaurant…
Soon after he began dating Rexanah Wyse, Eric Morrissette began receiving text messages that he found suspicious. The messages would arrive early in the morning, around 4 or 5 a.m. They were from Ms. Wyse. Her texts would always convey some kind of positive message, something like, “Good morning, today’s a great day for a…
Amy Ogbonna and Samuel Oiwoh both swiped right on the dating app Tinder in December 2014, but neither of them messaged the other. Three weeks later, Ms. Ogbonna spotted Mr. Oiwoh at a party. She walked up to him and asked if he was the guy who didn’t talk to her on the app. “I…
The pandemic has reshaped many of our relationships in significant ways. For Meaghen Brown, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, an office shutdown meant finally being able to share a life with her long-distance boyfriend. [Like this newsletter? Sign up to receive it in your inbox.] We want to hear from you. We…
On an early September afternoon in 2015, Raquel Begleiter and David Godow met while eating pizza at a mutual friend’s place in Washington. Initially, Ms. Begleiter’s focus was on her best friend, Rachel, who was about to move to San Francisco. But then the Byzantine Empire came into the conversation, a topic of particular interest…
It was ultimately a dating app that introduced Sree Arimilli and Sandheep Surendran of San Francisco. But more traditional and spiritual elements, as well as a bit of self help, also played a part. Ms. Arimilli was out to dinner with a friend in New York in late 2016. When talk turned to their love…
With that, the wheels of a Hollywood-style proposal were set in motion. But not before Ms. Gist and Ms. Brown, who is also a producer on “Our Kind of People,” figured out who they are as a couple. “We’re such lesbians,” Ms. Gist said. “We started this thing where we’d turn off all the lights…
Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado gets one question a lot about his Sept. 15 wedding to Marlon Reis. “People say, ‘You know, it took you a while to get married,’” Mr. Polis, a Democrat, said. “But what’s important to remember is that Obergefell v. Hodges wasn’t until 2015. So we really only waited six years.”…