“Increased LGBTQ+ visibility, greater legal protections, and more accepting cultural attitudes are gradually reducing the necessity of lavender marriages,” says Joy Berkheimer, PhD, LMFT, a ...

NEW YORK — “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple.” In nature, among the priestly ...

EW YORK — “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple.” Consider it a many-layered ...