Steven Romo

After 14 years as a married couple, Kate and Trish Varnum still marvel at the benefits of a legally recognized marriage. They have the ability to visit each other if one of them becomes hospitalized, the right to have both their names on their adopted son’s birth certificate and they can file taxes jointly. The couple married in 2009, soon after the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in their favor in the landmark Varnum v. Brien case, in which the two of them were plaintiffs alongside five other same-sex…