Lavender Marriage - in Fiction

In Fiction

Fictional examples include:

• The plot of a Korean film (2012) Two Weddings and a Funeral (directed by Kim Jho Kwang Su), in which Min SU, a gay doctor enters into a lavender marriage with Hyo Jin, a lesbian who wants to adopt a baby.
• The plot of the 1993 film The Wedding Banquet, which centers around a lavender marriage between two Chinese Americans.
• The 1996 episode of The Simpsons titled "A Fish Called Selma", in which Troy McClure enters into a lavender marriage with Selma Bouvier to conceal his unusual sexual desire for fish/aquatic animals.
• The Italian-American character Salvatore in the series Mad Men (2007), who enters into a lavender marriage to conceal his homosexuality from the early 1960s Madison Avenue advertising agency on which the series is centered. His wife does not know of his sexual orientation.
• In the show Samantha Who? (2007-2009), the character Andrea Belladonna agrees to enter into a lavender marriage with gay basketball player Tony Dane.
• In the 2008 Hindi movie Fashion, the character Rahul Arora, a gay fashion designer, marries Janet, a heterosexual model, to conceal his sexual orientation.
• The Playboy Club, a 2011 television series on NBC, includes a lesbian Playboy Bunny in a lavender marriage with a gay man. The two are members of the Chicago chapter of the Mattachine Society.
• In American writer James Frey's novel Bright Shiny Morning (2008), the homosexual actor Amberton Parker is in a lavender marriage with actress Casey Parker, also homosexual, in order to conceal both of their sexual orientations.