Straight Spouse Network

The Straight Spouse Network (SSN) is an international organization that provides personal, confidential support and information to heterosexual spouses/partners, current or former, of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender mates and mixed-orientation couples for constructively resolving coming-out problems. SSN also offers research-based information about spouse, couple, and family issues and resources to other family members, professionals, community organizations, and the public. SSN is the only support network of its kind in the world.

As outreach, the network offers information about spouse and family issues, mixed orientation marriages and spouse resources to professionals, community organizations and the media.

Excerpts from recent Blog Posts!
Hindsight is So Clear
	when the facts were irrefutable, I found the Straight Spouse Network (www.straightspouse.org). And it saved my sanity. I wasn�t alone! This had happened to thousands and thousands of other people, and there were peers out there who had my back, who made me KNOW it wasn�t ME. Yes, hindsight is so clear...
How Does the Prop 8 Ruling Affect Straight Spouses of Gay People?
	You can read all about the legal decision in California, upholding gay marriage, and overturning the referendum against it. There's very little written or spoken about how we straight spouses and straight partners are affected. These realities haven't come about in our lives BECAUSE of gay marriage. They're already there, consequences of our �one man-one woman marriages� which were also �one gay-one straight marriages�.
Does He Or Doesn't He? Gay Husbands and Cyber Sex
	You found the porn on the computer and were told "I don't know how that got there". Let's look at what is possible with technology, to put your mind at rest - or to confirm your suspicions.
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To find out about support groups or individual contacts near you, please visit this page to request information!

Recent Media About Straight Spouses
2009-09-14 The Associated Press
Straight spouses advocate same-sex marriage by Lisa Leff
	This Associated Press article interviews Amity Pierce Buxton, founder of the Straight Spouse Network and a number a straight spouses, and discusses why straight spouses may choose to be advocates for same-sex marriage. The article has been picked up and published by a wide variety of National and Local media outlets and has appeared in and been quoted in many blogs
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2009-08-11 Newsblaze.com
Pride Choice Award
	Straight Spouse Network Wins Pride Choice Award
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2009-07-02 SanLuisObispo.com
Married and coming out
	Interview with Randy Spires, a straight spouse, and Amity Pierce Buxton, Founder of the Straight Spouse Network.
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