Spectators watch the 2012 Capital Pride Parade. Photo by Ted Eytan.

Mayor Vince Gray believes there’s no reason why D.C. shouldn’t recognize same-sex couples married in Utah, he told the crowd at a Gertrude Stein Democratic Club meeting last night, the Washington Blade reports.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court issued a stay on a U.S. District Court judge’s ruling that Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. In the period between the District Court’s December 20th ruling—which greatly outraged Utah’s predominantly conservative politics—and the Supreme Court’s decision to issue a stay on January 6th while state officials appeal the judge’s ruling, more than 1,300 gay and lesbian couples married in Utah. Since then, however, several states—including Maryland—and the federal government announced that they would, in fact, still recognize those same-sex couples married in Utah between that period while the state’s gay marriage laws are reviewed.

“I’ll talk to [D.C. Attorney General] Irv Nathan about it,” Gray said at the meeting, according to the Blade. “But my position would be unequivocally that we ought to do that.” Gray has a long history of supporting LGBT rights in the District, and was chair of the Council when the city passed same-sex marriage laws in 2009. At his reelection campaign kickoff this past weekend, at least a dozen LGBT activists were in attendance to support Gray.

A spokesperson from D.C. Attorney General Nathan’s office said they do not have comment at this time.