"There's an emerging rhetoric around monogamy among young gay couples. In that way, they're a lot more like married heterosexual couples than they are like older gay couples."

-- Frederick Hertz, an attorney and author on gay legal issues, on the rise of Massachusetts gay men in their 20s getting married and making monogamy a central component of their relationships.

"I mean, we wouldn't be getting married if we didn't plan on being monogamous. To me, that's a fundamental and important part of marriage."

-- Marc Brent, 24, on his planned marriage to Vassili Shields, 23.

(both from New York Times Magazine)