Nine US states and the District of Columbia fully recognise gaymarriage, including several states which legalised the unions through a popular vote in 2012.
This fact has long since been conveniently dropped down the memory hole, but in 1993 virtually all of the leaders of the gay political establishment were fiercely opposed to the idea of gaymarriage, and they vilified as sellouts those of us who supported it.
Some Anglican churches have threatened to break away because of the ordination of a gay bishop by the Episcopal church in the US. Steve Gray of the UCC Indiana-Kentucky Conference said he supports gaymarriage but worries about the cost of this decision.
Entering the East Room amid cheers to speak to us, President Barack Obama reaffirmed the commitment he'd made only weeks before to full support for gaymarriage.