Virginia marriage equality amendment campaign launches at start of Pride Month

By: Markus Schmidt

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: June 1, 2026

Words: 1,266

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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Chad Stewart and Blake McDonald met in college in 2007 and began dating two years later, eventually building a life together in Richmond after settling in Virginia more than a decade ago.

By 2015, the couple married — just one week before the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

“We didn’t want to have to think about politics or court cases,” McDonald said Monday outside the …

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