Mario and Monte met and fell in love while attending church in Colorado. Mario is a Senior Airman in the U.S. Air Force. The couple are raising a young child, and they’ve shared their story about family-building widely on their social media channels. They live now in Hawaii.

This piece was written by Meg York of Montpelier, Vermont. She is an advocate for updated protections for LGBTQ+ families nationwide, and has worked toward strengthening families and protecting young people raised by same-sex couples and others.

In May 2024, Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH – the president of the American Medical Association – authored an op-ed for MedPage Today entitled, “20 Years of Same-Sex Marriage Has Been a Boon to Health.”

In December 2023, Weston Clark and Brandon Mark published this op-ed in The Salt Lake Tribune, writing, “Most astounding and vital is that our children have grown up almost entirely in a world where their family’s legitimacy is clear and understood, equally, with a (relatively) secure legal blanket around us.”

NV and Katie married in 2014, before NV had come out as a transgender person and changed her identity documents to Female. The freedom to marry for all families has now taken on new importance.

After Prop 8 passed in 2008, Markie and Sarah, who had only been dating three months, went to a protest in Seattle. They landed on the cover of The Seattle Times, which is how they came out to their family. They officially got married in 2016, after an underwater proposal.

Barb and Ann Goldstein have been together for more than four decades. They now call five children, 13 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren their family. They shared their story with LGBTQ Nation in June 2025.

In June 2025, Matt and Raymie published this piece in The New Orleans Advocate on NOLA.com, focused on the tenth anniiversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s freedom to marry ruling.

“Because we got married in January, every year we discuss our goals for the year during our anniversary dinner,” said Rashaun. “We’re having dinner and talking about our goals for the year. And, I think I said, ‘I kinda want to run for office, but it’d be too difficult to do.’”

Dawn and Jen wrote this op-ed in The Iowa City Press-Citizen about their marriage: “As we mark 15 years of the freedom to marry we remain vigilant to attacks on equality.”

This article about Rob and David appeared in The Wall Street Journal the week of the twentieth anniversary of the freedom to marry in Massachusetts, in June 2024.

Ryan and Nicholas published this op-ed, "We’re a gay Tampa couple. Here’s what same-sex marriage has meant to us” in The Tampa Bay Times in June 2025.

Randy and Paul published an op-ed about their family – and serving as one of the plaintiff families in the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case – and why marriage matters in Kentucky.

Nancy Willow authored an op-ed about her marriage to her late wife Kim in Cardinal & Pine in June 2025. She movingly shares the story of her father, a man of faith and a minister who officiated her marriage to Kim. “Even during those early days he was eager to stand on the right side of history,” Nancy writes.

Cris & L. Bolton-Hunter started a non-profit organization called Rainbows and Reflections committed to advocating for the rights of LGBTQIA+ individuals to access literature that speaks to their experiences and identities.