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The RDC will spire and empower lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people SW Virgia to lead full and rewardg liv. Caterers, venue owners and photographers at the weddg expo displayed photos of the oppose-sex upl they have always served, but they said they will soon add pictur of some of their newer clients: pairs of bris and pairs of has changed quiet and dramatic ways this relatively liberal cy on the northern edge of the Bible Belt sce same-sex marriage beme legal Virgia jt over a year 1 9 marriage licens distributed Roanoke the first ne months of this year went to a same-sex uple, the hight of any large cy the monwealth, acrdg to data provid by the Virgia Office of Val rights activists say the numbers reflect the gay muny’s ep roots Roanoke, which were kept hidn for s but have bee more visible as the natn’s attu toward beg gay changed.
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But they also reflect the growg realy a natn where same-sex marriage is legal across the land: In ral and urban areas, small towns and big ci, gay upl everywhere are embracg marriage as an stutn for Virgia, about 3, 600 same-sex upl have received marriage licens sce October 2014, when a cisn by the U. Richmond, Norfolk and Charlottville also have seen a relatively high percentage of licens issued to gay upl — about 9 percent each. In Northern Virgia — close to Washgton and Maryland, plac where gay marriage has been legal for longer — jt 4 percent of marriage licens went to same-sex upl, perhaps bee upl who wanted to marry had done so already other flurry of weddgs Roanoke clud a male uple who scribe their fathers as homophobic and who say marriage legimiz their relatnship, longtime lovers lookg to more easily adopt their foster child, and two lennial women who had moved to Dallas but returned to marry their home town.
Among those planng weddgs are a female uple who have stggled wh hospal-visatn and ctody issu at var pots durg their 12-year legalizatn of gay marriage has spawned some ristance, such as a nservative pastor who says he is nsirg crossg out the “spoe” l on Virgia’s new marriage license forms and wrg “hband” and “wife” as a form of silent also has prompted the gay-iendly OneLove Roanoke weddg expo, which took place at the Sheraton Roanoke Hotel about a month ago. The event was created as an act of fiance by a lol terer who is not gay but wanted to make a strong statement after hearg a weddg-hall owner say he would never allow gay upl to marry his venue.
’ ”‘A new place the world’Michael Earp and Shannon Lovelace bated for months whether they should be one of the gay upl shg to the urthoe to get a marriage license. Paperwork or not, they have sentially lived as a married uple for five years on their 3-acre property ral Hardy, ll their hoe the bear n, a reference to the gay subculture of heavy and hairy men.