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Evan E. Lambert

Evan E. Lambert

Evan E. Lambert is an essayist, journalist, travel writer and short fiction author with clips at BuzzFeed, Paste, Business Insider, Queerty, and more. He splits his time between the U.S. and Lima, Peru, and is a native speaker of Spanglish, Franglish and Portuglish.

Boyfriend vs. Partner: The Quiet Marriage Expectations Behind the Words

No one ever listens to me. Every time I call Renzo my boyfriend, people rechristen him as my "partner." Moments later, I reassert that he is my "boyfriend," making the implicit criticism as obvious as Gala Varo's tuck on “Drag Race [...]