Swoon.

I read today that Brad Pitt refuses to marry Angelina until everyone who wants to has the right to marry. That means queers, which means me – and my girlfriend. I’ve always wished that more of my hetero friends and loved ones would take this principled stand when it comes to the privilege of matrimony. Sure, a straight wedding is a happy event, and I was thrilled when my brother recently embarked on this commitment with his wonderful longtime girlfriend. Yet too often, I think, straight people’s embrace of marriage bespeaks at best a happy cluelessness about the legal rights denied to gay citizens, and at worst a smug, selfish conformity. I wanted my sister and brothers and friends, people who profess to care about equality and democracy – and me – to resist the hegemony in solidarity. Sadly, it’s all too rare.

That’s why Brad’s statement is so powerful, why my gay friend Mason and I sighed and fluttered our eyelashes at each other today when we heard the news. I’ve found it hard to resist Brad ever since he burned up the screen as a dangerous boy toy in Thelma and Louise (we'll tactfully avoid any mention of Troy), and lately, with his photogenic, humanitarian globetrotting at Angelina’s side, frolicking with their rescued rainbow brood, it’s hard to find fault. Now this: spokesmodel for tolerance and inclusion and civil rights. Dreamy.

Not only do my girlfriend and I want to get married, we want to do all those crazy, mainstream things like share a house and have kids. Everything’s a little more complicated since we don’t have the rights that married couples take for granted, but hey, we’re plucky. We’ll make it work. So far, where children are concerned, we’re still weighing our options, in all their bewildering variety: adoption (domestic or international? open or closed?), foster children, carrying my own baby, harvesting my eggs so my partner can carry my biological child. These last two require the participation of a third party, someone cool enough to take a back seat while lesbians raise his child, someone smart and good-looking and compassionate, a humanitarian, a…wait a second...

I bet Angie would be cool with it. She’s all “we are the world, we are the children,” right? So, Brad, how about it? Will you be our baby daddy?