in August 2011, I announced my full support for same-sex marriage. At the time, I was only the 19th U.S. senator to do so – not many more than the 14 senators who had voted against DOMA when it passed 15 years earlier.
But we haven’t made this progress alone. Straight allies have been beside us every step of the way, courageously standing up for their LGBT friends, co-workers, and neighbors and showing the world that fairness is a value we should all work for.