A perfect day, one year ago: The wedding that could topple Ohio’s gay marriage ban

[William769]

John Arthur told a friend that she didn’t know how to talk to guys. So he was going to take her out and show her how it’s done.

“That guy likes you,” she told him later about the friend of some friends – Jim, his name was – who had come down to Cincinnati from Bowling Green to spend part of the holidays.

“Nah,” Arthur told her.

“We were together 20 years and 10 months,” Jim Obergefell says, sitting at the dining table of the couple’s condo in Cincinnati’s Over the Rhine neighborhood. Obergefell just tried watching the video of their July 2013 wedding, but he couldn’t get past John’s first words to the camera.

It’s too soon after his husband’s passing, from ALS, last October. And John Arthur, at age 48, passed too soon.

Just two years earlier everything was fine, until they both noticed he had been walking a little differently.

Arthur saw the doctor in June 2011. By June 2013, he was bedridden.

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/07/one-year-ago-a-perfect-day/

Pretty long article but well worth looking at.

RIP John Arthur and thank you for your courage.

[RKP5637]

1. K&R!!! Thanks for posting this!!!

[theHandpuppet]

2. And here they are...

This is love, my friends.

[William769]

3. That cannot be denied.

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4. K & R