11.   A study from a recent issue of the same journal found higher rates of substance abuse and major depression among men with male sexual partners than among heterosexual men.

12.   But Laurel gets no breaks until she invents a male partner.

13.   But they also had sex with male partners.

14.   Carter has thrown her in the ring with male sparring partners who outweigh her and, sometimes, feel they have something to prove.

15.   Consider Tom Novak, an employee at Western, who brought his male partner to a high-profile social function.

16.   Daughters, meanwhile, were encouraged to replace their love for their fathers by finding a male romantic partner rather than by developing an independent self.

17.   Emlen suggested, for example, that single parents considering remarriage emulate female baboons, which do not accept a new male partner unless he demonstrates parenting skills.

18.   He now lives happily with a male partner.

19.   I know several of this family mix in which the surrogate father and his male partner are helping to raise the child of the lesbian mother and her partner.

20.   If Balanchine often gives a male partner three ballerinas, here the reverse was true.