“We are committed to be together forever” said this Saturday, Keiner Bener and Paul López who met 20 years ago in Costa Rica and in 2018 joined their lives in marriage.
Both husbands said: “What I feel right now is the security that now I can be sure that I can represent my husband in sickness, in health, at all times.”
This Saturday, as if it were the first time, with barely noticeable emotion and the sparkle in their eyes, they once again said yes for life.
“For us it is being able to share that same joy with others as children of God, so it is a fulfillment of a dream,” said Bener and López, who were one of the 22 couples who met this Saturday at a Miami Beach hotel to celebrate their union. of their lives in freedom.
“It is a celebration and a relief that we are able to marry into the LGBT community,” said SAVE Executive Director Orlando González.
The event carried out by the SAVE organization, recognized for leading the protection of the LGBTIQ+ community in South Florida, celebrated the law that protects equal marriage signed by President Biden last Tuesday at the White House.
“We have a variety of couples, we have couples who are getting married for the first time and others who have been married in the past,” said SAVE Executive Director Orlando González.
With this bill now same-sex or interracial marriages will not risk losing legal recognition and states will not be required to issue same-sex marriage licenses.