"We've always just had this deep connection, so that's why, like, I never stopped loving him throughout any of this," says Lasoff-Santos, a 33-year-old librarian in Michigan. "I've become more attracted to him. I guess part of it is just, like, that confidence in him and, like, he just seems so happy."
Such marriages, when they do prevail, can underscore the resilience of love, the flexibility of sexual identity, and the diversity in LGBTQ+ relationships 20 years after the first same-sex marriages in the U.S. and with Pride Month in its sixth decade.
"I needed somebody to talk to that knew how I was feeling," Avril says. "And I looked around, and there weren't any groups that were for me. They were full of people that were very angry and bitter and didn't want anybody else's relationship to work because their relationship hadn't worked."
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