Some queer couples in the U.S. are rushing to marry before Donald Trump’s inauguration and they’re also coming together in group wedding ceremonies as the LGBTQ+ community had done before.
Many gay couples in recent weeks are rushing to get married, start fertility treatments and take other measures out of fear that some of their rights might be rescinded during a second Trump administration.
Several events for queer couples are happening in states across the country, including Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York. Hundreds of wedding vendors, from photographers to officiants, are offering free or discounted services to couples marrying before January 20.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in the United States since the Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark ruling, Obergefell v. Hodges, which made state bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Before then, 37 states and U.S. territories had already legalized marriage equality.
The Respect for Marriage Act, passed in 2022 with about two-thirds of the vote in Congress, requires all states and the federal government to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages as long as they were valid in the state where they were performed.
Unless the Supreme Court reversed it decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationally, there’s nothing that Congress or the incoming administration could do to prevent same-sex couples from marrying.
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