Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, American feminist and gay-rights activists who were married in 2004 (but were voided by the state) and then remarried in June 2008 (Martin died two months later and Lyon died in 2020)[35]
Billie Ert and Antonio Molina, Americans who were married in 1972, (but later voided by the state of Texas) (Billie Ert died 1976), (Antonio Molina died 1991)
Axel and Eigil Axgil, Danish gay activists who were married in 1989 (Axel Axgil died 2011), (Eigil Axgil died 1995)
Otis Charles, bishop of the Episcopal Church, and Felipe Sanchez-Paris (m. 2008–2013, Sanchez-Paris' death in 2013 and Charles' death later in 2013)[87][88]
Notes
^The marriage was alleged to have been a sham marriage to evade United States immigration laws, and became public knowledge the following year during legal proceedings on the criminal conspiracy and racketeering charges related to Mack's involvement with the inner circle of NXIVM, a pyramid scheme widely described as a cult whose inner circle secretly operated as a sex-traffickingcrime-ring.[32]