Sublime

Frank Kameny shaking hands with President Barack Obama, who signed a memorandum in 2009 extending benefits to partners of federal employees. Vice President Joseph Biden, US Representative Barney Frank, US Senator Joe Lieberman, and US Representative Tammy Baldwin are witnesses.

As the attorney general was walking up the grand staircase to the baroque rotunda to meet them, she tweeted her followers: “About to marry the Prop 8 plaintiffs, Kristin Perry and Sandy Stier. Wedding bells are ringing.”41

Clinton called as soon as he received Mixner’s letter to assure him, “Hillary and I will always be your friends and you can count on us . . .You’re doing the right thing.”

“New York Court Defines Family to Include Homosexual Couples,” the stunned editors of the New York Times announced when the case was settled in 1989.