USA. Cheyenne, Wyoming. 2016. Travis Glantz, an attorney, and RJ Kirchhefer, a grants administrator, met 15 years ago in college and got married in 2015. Their wedding ceremony was performed by Sara Burlingame of Wyoming Equality: “I fit in because I wanted to celebrate their love, queer love, love in Wyoming. just all the love and they let me, so it was a good match,” she says.

Sara reflects on the current state of equality law since Trump’s presidential win: “There was some constant low-level terror after this election when Wyoming turned out in record numbers for Donald Trump and we became the ‘Most Conservative State in the Country’. I had just given a talk in Portland, OR this summer, lightly bragging that although we were slow to make progress on passing progressive legislation, we hadn’t passed a single bad bill in over a decade. And then Trump was elected and the dread set in; maybe our state had turned. I am happy to say that mid-way through our legislative session our old pattern held out. We killed two bad bills, one a FADA bill that would have given anyone a license to discriminate against the LGBT community, including teachers, doctors and county clerks, and the other a bathroom bill that would have made transgender people felons and cited for ‘public indecency’ for using the bathroom that corresponded with their gender identity. And we failed to pass a bill that would have made employment discrimination illegal. So we held steady: no progress but we didn’t go backward. That may be the sad epitaph for our state right now.”