Last time I catched up with lesbian couple Kacey Frierson and Chwanda Nixon, from Jonesboro, Georgia, was in the end of October 2012 and I've just got an update from the girls.

IDOMARATHON girls
Photo by private IDOMARATHON girls

If you haven’t heard about them #IDOMARATHON girls, let me introduce you to them.

In April 2013 Kacey & her wife Chwanda started a same-sex marriage journey to get married in all of the marriage equality states. Back in 2013 there were only 13 states that allowed same-sex marriage.

As of April 2015 they had completed 14 legal same-sex marriages!! On June 26, 2015 marriage equality came to the United States! But they was not done!! They plan to finishing the remaining 33 states as soon as they can!! And trying to save their home stat Georgia for last!!

In 2013, as a lesbian couple, they could not just go to any courthouse to get married, not even our their local courthouse in Georgia. So they decided to take a cross-county, cross-continent journey of love and commitment to all of the marriage equality states they could legally get married in!

In April 2013 they got married in 8 states: New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Maryland, Washington DC and Massachusetts.
In April 2014 they got married in 3 more states: New Jersey, Iowa, and Illinois.
In April 2015 they added Rhode Island, Virginia and West Virginia.

For their 2013, 2014 and 2015 weddings, all 7 of our children, Edward, Kimoni, Louis, Kimari, Daviyon, Kimron and Katherine, took the cross country trips with them!

In January 2018 they added Nevada and in April 2018 they added Florida and Tennessee in August 2018.

#IDOMARATHON - Kacey Frierson and Chwanda Nixon, from Jonesboro, Georgia.
Photo private. #IDOMARATHON – Kacey Frierson and Chwanda Nixon, from Jonesboro, Georgia.

There are currently 30 states where marriage equality will END if Obergefell is overturned, unless they repeal their marriage bans. (They have gotten married in 4 of those states).

The inspiration for the #idomarathon is love and commitment and EQUALITY…MARRIAGE EQUALITY!! What a better way to show their love and commitment to each other than to get married, and married and married!! They won’t be done until they get married in all 50 states.

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