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Skadden Partner Writes Gay Romance Novel
Posted Nov 13, 2008, 11:10 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has published a gay romance novel under a pen name, but he’s not shy about how Proposition 8 has affected him.
Gregory Smith, who works in the law firm’s Palo Alto, Calif., office, published his book A Matter of Choice under the name G. Carlos Smith, the Am Law Daily reports. It features a lawyer as one of the main characters and "considers the tragic effects of laws like Proposition 8 while offering a new hope,” according to the book’s publisher, P.D. Publishing.
Smith married his partner of 10 years after the California Supreme Court found that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry. Since… Continue reading...
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