Here’s your daily dose of adorable. Candice and Megan are a couple living in Utah with their baby daughter, who just radiates cuteness. In the video below, they share their feelings for each other, how they got married during the brief window for same-sex couples in Utah, and what marriage means to them as moms.
They also talk about why they didn’t just leave Utah, given the level of anti-gay animus in the state. “This is my home,” Candice asserts. Not only that, she says their visibility as a family is important: “I feel like our family is making a difference in this community.”
The video is part of All the Stories, a longer documentary by Salt Lake City-based filmmaker D’Arcy Benincosa about marriage for same-sex couples across America. “There has never been a feature length movie documenting the story of gay marriage across America because it hasn’t been legal. . . yet,” she says on the Indiegogo page where she is raising money for the film.
Benincosa wants to focus on the love stories of her subjects rather than to create a film about “issues” or politics. ” She explains, in an interview with Freedom to Marry, “A culture is made up of stories passed from one generation to the next. The foundation of the way we define our lives is expressed through stories told in movies, through social media, on the news media, and books written at a given time.” The love stories of LGBT couples, however, lack “documentation and validation” — a gap she hopes to help remedy.
On December 20, 2013, a federal judge ruled that same-sex couples in Utah had the right to marry. That decision was stayed on January 6, 2014 — but not before Candice and Megan and many other couples managed to wed. Today, the 10th U.S. Court of Appeal will hear oral arguments in the case. Let’s hope they see this video.
