Shawn Binder

eBook ‘Everything Is Embarrassing’ out in 2014.

How To Make Gay Friends

Wonder if all the gay men you were promised when you came out are hiding on the closed set of a Britney Spears’ music video.

The Bravest Thing In Love

We’re taught we should be bold and passionate by bringing our loves flowers and making grand gestures like standing in the rain with a boom-box over our heads like John Cusack in, “Say Anything…”

Will You Love Me?

Will you stand by me if I grow old and tired, or begin to wither away before your eyes before i’m ready.

This Is How You Lose Me

You’ve stopped squeezing my hand three times like we practiced for when we’re out in public and you want to silently tell me ‘I love you.’

The Type Of Love I Need For You To Offer

I need you to yell, I need you to simmer. I want you to cry and to laugh and smile and to sulk in the three-dollar movie theater because I refused to hold your hand.

We Are Both Alive

You are everything that has ever made you cry. You are everything that has ever made you laugh.

5 Crazy Exes Who Are Worse Than Yours

Dude, it is 2013, there is pornhub…there is no reason for you to make creepy sex tapes of your ex wife. I will buy you a Brazzers membership. I will personally buy you one if you just stop.