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  • Ok.

  • I kid you not, as soon as I turned on the camera, my heart just like immediately started beating really hard.

  • But I'm going to deal with it, because I have something to tell you guys.

  • I've been wanting to do this for a long time; I just felt like I couldn't.

  • I felt like it was my fault.

  • I needed to learn to love myself before I could expect other people to love me for that.

  • Why am I ashamed of who I am?

  • I'm not "passing" as anything, I'm "being."

  • I'm about to tell my mom.

  • Kind of like, freaking out right now.

  • We just wanted to, like, call andand tell you

  • Because I'm tired of hiding, and I'm tired of lying by omission.

  • Dad, I'm gay.

  • It feels so good to say that.

  • It feels so good.

  • Do you still love me?

  • I still love you, son.

  • Nothing would stop me from loving you, my dear.

  • I love you, kid.

  • I love you too.

  • I felt nothing but support from the people around me.

  • Why should they be denied the right to share their life together?

  • You are voting, for the first time in the history of our state, to codify discrimination into our constitution.

  • I hope you will stand on the right side of history.

  • My son is not an issue. He is a person, just like you.

  • It is time. It is time to give our loving gay and lesbian couples the right to a marriage license.

  • Ayes 33, Nays 29.

  • It's the day I finally get to look at the man that I love, and finally say, "Will you please marry me?"

  • Every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society.

  • Do you promise to be a respectful and loving companion?

  • I do.

  • I do.

  • I do.

  • I do.

  • You may now kiss the bride.

  • The grooms may kiss.

Ok.

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