I didn’t know what to title this post. I’m not even sure what I really want to say in it, just that I want it to be. I honestly don’t know if I can even compose myself long enough to say what I want to say, so instead I’m just going to let my family and heroes say it for me.

I love you so much. And I couldn’t be more happy. Damn right you should have those same rights. And in your lifetime too.

A lot has changed sweetheart and you should cry if you feel like it because no on thought it would ever be this equal this quickly. It makes me have a lot of faith in our world.

Love and support for you always Chris so happy for you today!

I love you extra much today and hope you’re celebrating!

Love you so much! We are so thankful Tim has you in his life.We are so glad Tim has his family!

Well congrats. All I can say is it’s about time. It’s been long overdue. Now if they can finally get rid of that stupid confederate flag.

“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.
“The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed. It is so ordered.”

The feeling I have is so different from just being happy, the feeling I have is something like loved, respected, valued, validated, accepted, cherished, celebrated. Maybe I can say something about that.

My whole life I have been different. I didn’t even know I was gay until middle school, but I knew that I made friends differently, laughed differently, saw things differently. And not always in a positive way – sometimes I saw everyone else enjoying things I could not bring myself to enjoy. It feels alienating, lonely, and frustrating. When I found out I was gay I was scared, angry, broken hearted. What can it possibly be like for young men in the future to never have to feel those things I felt, besides completely amazing. And even I was not the first, not the worst off, never put into an institution where I had to be ‘corrected’, never put in jail for loving someone, never tied to a split-rail fence and beaten and left to die in the cold of night. I wish I could thank so many of those men and women who have been honored today, without them I would not have the fabulous life I have grown to love. For every heartbreak we had when one of us died, were turned away, rejected, ignored, assaulted… we made it. We never stopped loving, we were brave – we were so so brave, we risked everything, and today we celebrate a journey none of us choose to make, but made anyway. Here is a day to us, and tomorrow for those that helped us get here. For equality for women, for equality for black people, for equality for transgendered people. We have a long way to go, but we have come so far.

With love,
Chris