Wedding Equality

Roger Lewis and Keith Wilmott Goodall, December 21, 2005

Brighton, England

According to news reports, police broke up this unnamed couple’s wedding party in February 2010 in Kenya. Police said that they broke up the wedding both because homosexuality is illegal in Kenya and also to protect them from a mob threatening to kill the grooms. The grooms were found not guilty on charges of homosexual conduct. However, I have found no updates of what has happened to them since the traumatic events of their wedding day.

Frank and Joe Capley-Alfano, June 17, 2008

California

Matthew Morgan and Ryan Lawton, Feb. 16, 2010

Monterey Bay, California

Sebastian Melgoza and Gentry Ficke

Fullerton, California

James Little and Glenn Bradley, June 7, 2010

Captiva Island, Florida

Kevin Cusick Dix and Jeffrey Shelton, Sept. 13, 2010

Danbury, Connecticut

Jeffrey Luscombe and Sean O’Donnell, October 3, 2009

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The couple’s wedding was officiated by a representative of the Humanist Association of Canada. 

Eugene and Karl, Sept. 6, 2009

Liverpool, England

Gerry Studds and Dean Hara, May 24, 2004

Boston, Massachusetts

Longtime Massachusetts congressman, Rep. Gerry Studds, and Hara married a week after Massachusetts extended marriage rights. Their dog, Bonnie, also attended the wedding. Studds died in 2006. 

Terrance Heath and Rick Imirowicz, together with their sons, Parker and Dylan, and officiant, Rev. Robert Hardies, March 9, 2010

Washington, D.C.

Marriage licenses first became available to same-sex couples in D.C. a year ago today. Those licenses were accepted for filing starting on the 9th, making this couple among the first same-sex couples to marry there. More photos here. Interview with the couple here. Video here. 

Alberto Sánchez Fernández and Alberto Linero Marchena, Sept. 2006

Seville, Spain

Both are Spanish soldiers. Although marriage is legal for same-sex couples in Spain, Linero claims that he was discharged from the Spanish Air Force as a result of the wedding. 

Dave Wilson and Rob Compton, May 17, 2004

Boston, Massachusetts

Rev. Kim Crawford Harvie signs the couple’s wedding license at the Unitarian Universalist Arlington Street Church the day that same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts. The couple was one of seven who sued the state for the right to marry. 

Scott Gould and Paul Langsholt, Feb. 14, 2004

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Gould and Langsholt traveled to Canada from their home in Rockford, Illinois to be legally married on Valentine’s Day. This was before marriage rights had been extended to same-sex couples anywhere in the United States. They were one of seven U.S. couples who made the trip together. Also in the picture is Justice Harvey Brownstone completing their marriage paper work.

Mitchell Gold and Tim Scofield, June 19, 2010

Des Moines, Iowa

Gold is the co-founder of the Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams furniture company.