Three Couples Demonstrating Love

Recently:

•Beth Ditto and her long-term girlfriend Kristin Ogata got married in Hawaii, with Ditto walking the aisle barefoot in Gaultier. [VOGUE]

•A teenage couple from Tulsa met at a support group for transgender teenagers, both underwent gender reassignment surgery, and are adorable. “To me, Arin’s just my Arin. He’s always looked manly to me. But now he’s had the surgery he’s much more confident and comfortable with himself,” says Katie, who had her surgery last year and walked her boyfriend through his a month ago. “Being transgender myself, I understand Arin better than anybody else — how good he feels and how complete he feels.” [SUN]

•John Arthur and Jim Obergefell were Medevac’d from their home in Ohio to Maryland so that they could be married before Arthur succumbed to the final stages of ALS. Now, a judge in the federal court of Ohio is demanding that, despite the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, that the Ohio Registrar refuse any death certificate that does not list Arthur as married or Obergefell as his spouse. [QUEERTY]