I feel bad that I have to even consider going elsewhere to get married,” said the 29-year-old Vickers. ![]() Yet to Ashley Vickers, an event volunteer and mental health technician from Little Rock, having to leave the state to marry her partner, Sara Strickland, “is almost insulting.” The contentious Arkansas debate over same-sex unions “has drawn our community in Arkansas closer than ever,” organizer Bidwell said.īidwell, 68, and Lisa Smith, 59, sidestepped the Arkansas barrier by traveling from their home in Little Rock to wed in Bidwell’s native New York, where same-sex marriage has been legal since 2011. The San Diego Rodeo is put on by the Golden State Gay Rodeo Association (GSGRA), one of four founding associations of the International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRS). ![]() “We just want what’s right,” said Earp, which for both men means marriage, a legal covenant denied them in Arkansas and Texas. ![]() In Fayetteville, home to the state’s largest university, a human rights policy friendly to gays was approved by aldermen but reversed in a referendum spearheaded by religious conservatives.īack at the rodeo, Earp and partner Jonathan Suder, 25, dressed in typical western garb, insist they are not asking for “anything special.”
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