“I now realize how important marriage is. I’ve [known I am] gay since I was a teenager. Gay marriage was always something that’s going to happen in the future, but I couldn’t go get one, so it wasn’t on the table. All of a sudden it was on the table. And I got one. I was like, ‘Whoa, I really wanted this the whole time,’ and I was ready for it, and I just told myself I wasn’t because it wasn’t feasible.”

Sean Fitz, who married his boyfriend Tim McQuillan last year in Iowa, when gay marriage was legal in Polk County (Des Moines Register, Jan. 20)