June 26 has been a jackpot for landmark SCOTUS rulings on LGBT rights.
Lawrence v. Texas (2003), United States v. Windsor (2013), and now Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) were all decided on this day!
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Meet 28 LGBT Supporters Who Rallied at the Supreme Court
Elishe Wittes
Most young kids aren't able to make it out to huge historic events like today's Supreme Court hearings on same-sex marriage, which is why D.C. native Wittes found it so imperative to show up and show his support. "For as many people as are here, there are probably a hundred people who wish they could be here but can’t be because they have work, or because they can’t get up the money to come here, or because they’re teenagers and their families will prevent them from doing it," said Wittes. "I can come here. I live in the city, I have parents who allow me to come here, and so if I can, I should do it."
Meet 28 LGBT Supporters Who Rallied at the Supreme Court
Aaron Rhodes and Raymond Braun
Rhodes, the social media personality who famously came out to his father in a YouTube video with his twin brother, showed up at the Supreme Court rally Tuesday morning "on behalf of all the young people" who are LGBT.
"I feel like there’s so many like older people that they’re always standing up for this," he said, "and I think it’s important for us because some day we’re gonna get married too and I want to travel anywhere in the United States and love whoever I want to love.”
Rhodes's friend Braun shared in those sentiments. He wants what everyone else in the crowd surely wants: a favorable ruling.
"I think that today is the day that that’s going to go down in history," he said. "It’s going to be the type of day that we look back and tell our grandkids about, so I wanted to be a part of this historic moment and be able to say that I was on the steps of the Supreme Court on a day where, hopefully, they heard a case that changed civil rights in American history forever."
Meet 28 LGBT Supporters Who Rallied at the Supreme Court
Frank and Joe Capley-Alfano
This Oakland couple got married in their home state of California in 2008 and have been together for 15 years. "We pay our taxes, we’re Americans just like everybody else, and we deserve to be recognized by our nation, just like anybody else.”
Meet 28 LGBT Supporters Who Rallied at the Supreme Court
Juno
"This is something both of us have been fighting for, and it’s just something I had to be here for," said D.C. native Juno as he rallied outside the Supreme Court. Although his boyfriend couldn't be with him in support, he was excited to be there to witness "potentially the day equality won. The day justice finally, after 50-plus years of fighting since Stonewall, prevailed."
It is a head scratcher, isn’t it?
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Meet 28 LGBT Supporters Who Rallied at the Supreme Court
Arro Verse and Jenna Murdock
Arro Verse, a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, showed up at the rally to perform some music and "support what's going on today in the country." For the outcome of the rulings, she remains optimistic.
"The law of the land will be that it’s OK. Everyone’s going to be able to marry," she said.
Marriage is fundamental.
Read our full report of what happened this week in SCOTUS: http://bit.ly/1bAnq8Y
Meet 28 LGBT Supporters Who Rallied at the Supreme Court
Egan Orion
Many people in the crowd knew just how historically significant today's Supreme Court hearings are, and Seattle PrideFest director Orion was one of them. "I don’t know if I’m going to get another case like this in my lifetime where I can come and be an activist and be inside the courthouse," he said. "Anything could happen. Let’s just hope and pray, because there are couples in 14 states that don’t have the right to marry and some of them have been together for decades, and they don’t have the rights and protections of marriage and it’s not right."
John Roberts has a point.
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Meet 28 LGBT Supporters Who Rallied at the Supreme Court
Rafael Petry
Petry, a resident of New York City, visited the Supreme Court to call attention to the plight of LGBT people and the need for equal rights, including marriage equality. "I feel that being here and attracting the media’s attention to the issue is a good way to create pressure for change, to get government to do something about it," Petry said.
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