Larry Choate III, left, kisses Daniel Lennox outside their apartment in Columbus, Ga. Photo by Jill Knight
The New York Times has a beautiful story along with many photos of Larry and Daniel Lennox-Choate, once stationed at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga., who became the first male West Point graduates to marry when they recently tied the knot in New York.
The couple married at the Cadet Chapel at the United States Military Academy. They allowed a woman, whose husband was a West Point graduate, photograph them while they lived in Columbus, Ga., and also as they moved and planned their wedding in New York.
It's a beautiful love story of how far we've come as a society and how opening up and sharing our stories are truly the best ways to change the hearts and minds of those who continue to hate us. Even in Georgia.
After hours and hours of debate, Hawaii's Senate Judiciary Committee approved a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage. The bill now goes to the full Senate.
The vote was 5-2 Monday night after 12 hours of debate, according to a story by the Associated Press.
A second reading of the bill in the full Senate is set for Tuesday.
Tennessee is jumping on the marriage equality bandwagon and a federal lawsuit is expected to be filed today demanding the red state legally recognize same-sex marriage from states where they are legal.
Emily Saliers, one-half of Atlanta's own Indigo Girls, is a legally married woman. She announced the news at a Vancouver concert on Saturday, the first stop of the folk duo's Canadian tour.
Just so happens Saliers' new wife, Tristin Chipman, is Canadian. Saliers shouted the crowd, "I got married!" and explained the two tied the knot in New York. The two also have a nine-month old daughter.
It hasn’t even been two months since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the key part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, but “the lay of the land is getting a bit complicated,” according to James Esseks, director of the ACLU’s National LGBT and AIDS Project.
Esseks was one of the attorneys involved in pressing the case of Edith Windsor, which led to a historic June 26 decision striking down the core provision of DOMA.
Assessing the deluge of litigation since then, “it’s hard to keep count,” Esseks said.