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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

I grew up in a very small town, but it happened to be in western Massachusetts, where there were a lot of gay people. I remember my aunt going to a gay wedding when I was 11, and I thought it was the coolest thing.

I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.

I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.