MARRIAGE
LIKE most men, Mike hadn’t really thought about what he’d do with his last name, Ambrogi, when he got married.
What was there to think about? Even among heterosexual couples who share progressive gender politics, the question of surnames is typically directed towards the bride: Will she take his name, or keep hers? Or further down the line: Will the children have his last name, or a hyphenated combination?
But when he was in his twenties, Mike, a game developer who lives in Portland, Maine, in the US, found out that a couple he knew had combined parts of their surnames into a new one they could share.
