After Trump's first election in 2016, I had community members who knew that I was ordained as a minister who texted me that morning and were like, 'Hey, can you marry us because we're afraid about what's going to happen?' I wasn't scheduled to work that morning, but I put on a suit and went to Charis and married two different couples that morning who were worried specifically about queer marriage and protecting their rights as lesbian couples.
E.R. Anderson is helping to organize a two-hour elopement event at the feminist queer and trans bookstore Charis Books & More in Decatur, Georgia. Seven couples have signed up so far to marry at the store's 'Matrimony for the People' event on Jan. 19.
Hundreds of wedding vendors, from photographers to officiants, are offering free or discounted services to couples marrying before Jan. 20, and some vendors are coming together to take it a step further, offering free, fully planned, all-in-one mass weddings for couples willing to share their day with others.
Some queer couples are rushing to marry before Donald Trump's inauguration - and they're coming together in group wedding ceremonies as the LGBTQIA+ community has done before.
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