How Deep House Redefines Queer Love: Inside Jeremy Atherton Lin’s Unforgettable Story
“We could pretend our mattress was a raft that braved open waters. We could pretend it was its own floating nation. I could convince myself we were self-governed. Roland Barthes: ‘What I want is a little cosmos (with its own time, its own logic) inhabited only by “the two of us.” Everything from outside is a threat.’”
As Deep House approached its conclusion, the many similarities between Mr. Lin’s life and mine—we both struggled to create lasting happiness and security within a binational relationship, riding the ways of euphoria and frustration as the marriage equality ebbed and flowed during the 1990s, 2000s, and, for me, the 2010s—my happiest moment as perhaps a unique reader was realizing that both our marriages, that of the two Jeremys and my marriage to my husband, Hiro, occurred on the seventh of July.
