Marriage Equality Supporters

Following is a partial list of supporters of marriage equality; this list is a compilation of those who publicly support same-sex marriage and was collected by Marriage Equality USA, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, National Black Justice Coalition and Freedom to Marry.

National/International Politicians & Community Leaders

• Alice Huffman, President of the California State Conference of the NAACP
• Amy Ashworth, Founder, PFLAG
• Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York
• Barack Obama, current President U.S.A.
• Bareny Frank (D), U.S. Representative for Massachusetts
• Bill Clinton, former U.S.A. President
• Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, South Africa
• Byron Rushing, State Representative, Boston, MA
• Carol Moseley Braun, former U.S. Senator for Illinois
• Charles Barkley, Former NBA Player and Sports Commentator
• Chelsea Clinton
• Christine Chavez, Political Director of the United Farm Workers of America
• Coretta Scott King, deceased Civil Rights Leader
• Darrell Steinberg, CA Senator
• Dave Pallone, umpire, Major League Baseball
• Dick Cheney, former U.S.A. Vice President
• Dolores Huerta, President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation for Community Organizing and Co-Founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW)
• Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders, Former Surgeon General
• Dr. Sylvia Rhue, Director Religious Affairs, National Black Justice Coalition
• Eleanor Mondale
• Ellen Ensig-Brodsky, Pride Senior Network, NYC
• Elliot Spitzer (D), Governor of New York
• Gavin Newsom (D), former Mayor of San Francisco, Lieutenant Governor of CA
• Gloria Steinem
• Herb Wesson, California State Assembly Speaker-Emeritus
• Hillary Clinton, current U.S.A. Secretary of State
• James Hormel, Philanthropist
• Jan Laverty Jones (D), Mayor of Las Vegas
• Jay B. Lesiger, Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE), NYC
• Jerry Brown, Governor of CA
• Joe Biden, Vice President U.S.A.
• John Burton (D), California State Senate President
• John Lewis (D-GA), Member of Congress
• Julian Bond, Civil Rights Leader
• Ken Reeves, City Council, Cambridge, MA
• Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women
• Lt. Dan Choi
• Mark Leno, CA Senator
• Martin O'Malley, Governor of MD
• Mary Kay Henry, Executive Vice President, the Service Employees International Union
• Mildred Loving, plaintiff in the historical U.S. Supreme court decision in 1967 striking down the ban on interracial marriages
• Paul Tagliabue, former NFL Commissioner
• Richard M. Daley (D), Mayor of Chicago
• Robert Reich (D), former U.S. Sec. of Labor, candidate for Gov. of Massachusetts
• Rocky Anderson, foermer Mayor of Salt Lake City, President of High Road for Human Rights
• Ron Oden, Mayor of Palm Springs, CA
• Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Member of Congress
• Volker Beck Member of Parliament, Germany
• Willie Brown (D), former Mayor of San Francisco, former CA State Assemblymember
• Zach Wahls, Marriage Equality Activist Iowa

Religious Leaders

• Bishop James Wilkowski
• Bishop John L. Selders, Jr.
• Bishop Walter Righter
• Father Geoff Farrow
• Lama Surya Das
• Pamela J. Nelson, St. Clements Episcopal Church, NYC
• Pat Crawford, Integrity Brooklyn
• Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Congretation Beth Simchat Torah, NYC
• Rev. Al Sharpton
• Rev. Alexandra True
• Rev. Carol Sampson
• Rev. Cecil Williams, Minister, Glide Memorial, San Francisco
• Rev. Dr. Bob Goss
• Rev. Dr. Neil Thomas
• Rev. Dr. Paul Tellstrom
• Rev. Georgia Prescott
• Rev. James Forbes
• Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago
• Rev. John Hirano
• Rev. Joseph Lowery, Civil Rights Leader
• Rev. K. Dennis Winslow, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Manhattan
• Rev. Larold Schultz
• Rev. Laura Rose
• Rev. Lindi Ramsden, Director UULM CA
• Rev. Martha Hodges
• Rev. Meghan Cefalu
• Rev. Michael Eric Dyson
• Rev. Michael Yoshii
• Rev. Pat. Baumgardner, Metropolitan Church of NY
• Rev. Patricia E. Ackerman, Episcopal Church of NYC
• Rev. Peter Gomes, Harvard University Chaplain
• Rev. Roger Bauer
• Rev. Roland Stringfellow
• Rev. Thomas J.S. Mikelson
• Rev. Will McGarvey
• Rev. William Sinkford, President, Unitarian Universalist Church
• Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson
• The Rt. Rev. Craig Bettendorf
• The Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong

Religious Organizations

• Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons
• Al-Fatiha Foundation
• American Humanist Association
• Bay Area Coalition of Welcoming Congregations
• California Church IMPACT
• California Council of Churches
• California Faith for Equality
• Central Conference of American Rabbis
• Council of Churches of Santa Clara County
• Dignity/USA
• Ecumenical Catholic Church
• Evangelical Anglican Church in America (EACA)
• Evangelical Catholic Church
• Executive Committee of the American Friends Service Committee
• Friends Committee on Legislation of California
• Friends for Lesbian & Gay Concerns (Quakers)
• General Synod of the United Church of Christ
• Integrity
• Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
• Jews for Marriage Equality (Southern California)
• Justice & Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ
• Lazarus Project, Mission of the Presbyterian Church
• Lutherans Concerned/North America
• Michigan Jewish AIDS Coalition
• National Council of Jewish Women
• Nat'l Community Relations Cmte of the American Friends Service Cmte (Quakers)
• Pacific Central District Chapter of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association
• Pacific Southwest Council on the Union of Reform Judaism
• Pacific Southwest District Chapter of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association
• Progressive Christians Uniting
• Reconciling Ministries Clergy of the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodists
• Riverside Church, New York City
• Soka-Gakkai International-USA
• Soulforce
• Union of American Hebrew Congregations
• Union of Reform Judiasm
• Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
• Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry ? California
• Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association
• Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches
• Wider Church Ministries of the United Church of Christ
• Women's Rabbinic Network, Reform Women Rabbis

Civil Rights Groups & Other Organizations

• AGUILAS
• Alburquerque Center for Law & Justice
• American Civil Liberties Union
• American Ethical Union
• American Family Therapy Academy
• American Latin Alliance
• American Psychoanalytic Association
• And Justice For All
• Asian American Justice Center 
• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Asian and Pacific Islander Equality
• Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women and Transgender Network
• Asian and Pacific Islander Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays
• Asian Equality, Asian Law Alliance
• Asian Law Caucus
• Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California
• Asian Pacific Islander Family Pride
• Asian Pacific Islander Health Forum
• Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
• Asian Pacific Islander Pride Council
• Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center
• Asian Women?s Shelter
• Asian Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership
• Bar Association of San Francisco
• Bar Association of the City of New York
• Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom
• Bienestar Human Services
• BiNET USA
• Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
• California Democratic Party
• California National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• California Women?s Law Center
• Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
• Chinese for Affirmative Action
• Chinese Progressive Association
• Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
• Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
• Equal Justice Society
• Equal Rights Advocates
• Equality Action NOW! (EAN)
• Family Pride
• Filipinos for Affirmative Action
• Freedom to Marry
• Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
• Gay & Lesbian Latinos United
• Gay & Lesbian Medical Association
• Gay & Lesbian Parents Coalition International (GLPCI)
• Gay Asian Pacific Alliance
• Gay Asian Pacific Support Network
• Gay Men of African Descent
• Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
• GetEQUAL
• Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council
• Hetrick-Martin Institute
• Human Rights Campaign
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation
• Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific Asian North American Religion
• Japanese-American Bar Association
• Japanese-American Citizens League
• Korean Community Center of the East Bay
• La Raza Centro Legal
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
• LEAGUE/AT&T
• Legal Aid Society ? Employment Law Center
• Legal Momentum (formerly, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund)
• Lesbian & Gay Immigration Rights Task Force
• Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
• Men of All Colors Together
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• Multicultural Bar Alliance of Los Angeles
• My Sister's House
• National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
• National Association for Women in Education
• National Association of Social Workers
• National Black Justice Coalition
• National Black Lesbian & Gay Leadership Forum
• National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)
• National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF, "The Task Force")
• National Latino/a Lesbian & Gay Organization (LLEGO)
• National Lawyers Guild
• National Lesbian and Gay Law Association
• National Organization for Women (NOW)
• National Partnership for Women & Families
• National Writers Union
• New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy
• Organization of Chinese Americans, San Francisco Chapter
• Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (P-FLAG)
• People for the American Way
• Queen's Bench Bar Association of the San Francisco Bay Area
• Rutgers School of Law, Newark Urban Legal Clinic
• SacLEGAL
• Socialist Party USA
• Southeast Asian Community Center 
• Southern Center for Law & Justice United States
• Student Association UCLA Department of Social Welfare
• Tom Homann Law Association
• United Lesbians of African Heritage
• University of Colorado Student Union
• University of Connecticut Undergraduate Student Government
• Ventura County Black Attorneys Association
• Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California
• Washington State Democratic Party
• Zuna Institute

Education/Academic Leaders

• Barbara Cox, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California
• Beth Van Schaack, Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, California University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, International Human Rights Clinic
• Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Ontario, Canada
• Dr. Randall Bailey, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Atlanta
• Faculty Senate at Stanford School of Medicine
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Professor
• Kenji Yoshino, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
• Margaret L. Satterthwaite, New York University School of Law, New York, New York
• Mayo Moran, Dean, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Ontario, Canada
• Paul Schiff Berman, University of Connecticut School of Law, W. Hartford, Connecticut
• Professor Herma Hill Kay, Former Dean of Boalt Law School
• Professor Patricia Cain,  Inez Mabie Distinguished Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
• Robert Wintemute, School of Law, King's College, University of London, United Kingdom
• Sujit Choudhry, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Ontario, Canada
• William Aceves, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California
• Williams Institute, UCLA
• Women's Institute for Leadership Development

Literary Leaders

• Andrew Tobias, author
• Armistead Maupin, author
• Avery Corman, author
• Bruce Vilanch, writer, Hollywood Squares
• Charles Kaiser, author
• Charlotte Sheedy, author
• Christie Hefner, publisher
• Clarence Page, columnist
• Davian Kotulski, author
• Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe columnist
• Dorothy Allison, author
• Dr. Simon LeVay, author
• Eric Ross, author
• Jed Mattes, literary agent
• Jewelle Gomez, author
• Judy Wieder, journalist, The Advocate
• Matt Baume, journalist, blogger
• Michael Eric Dyson, author and professor
• Michael Musto, columnist, The Village Voice
• Moises Kaufman
• Nora Ephron, author & Nick Pileggi
• Patricia Nell Warren, author
• Terrence McNally, playwright
• Tobey Kaplan, poet

Business Leaders

• Amy Suits, Propel Design
• Anna Wintour, Vogue
• Andy Spivak, Morrison and Forrester
• Chris Hughes, Facebook Co-Founder
• Christopher Lee, President, Columbia Pictures
• Ingrid Casares, Entrepreneur
• Kenneth Cole, Fashion Designer
• Marc Jacobs, Fashion Designer
• Marc Pincus, Zinga
• Rick Welts, CEO of the Phoenix Suns
• Russell Simmons, Entrepreneur
• Sean Parker, Facebook Co-Founder
• Suze Orman, Financial Guru

Companies

• Atlantic Records
• Billie Jean King
• Google
• HERO Magazine
• Muffin Spencer-Devlin & Lynda Roth
• Olivia
• Playboy Enterprises
• POZ Magazine
• UTNE Reader

Athletes

• Anton Hysen, Soccer
• Antonio Cromartie, Football
• Ben Cohen, Rugby
• Billie Jean King, Tennis
• Brendon Ayanbadejo, Football
• Brian Burke, Hockey
• Charles "Chuck" Barkley, Basketball, TNT analyst
• Donte' Stallworth, Football
• Gareth Thomas, Rugby
• Grant Hill, Basketball
• Hudson Taylor, Wrestling
• Isiah Thomas, Basketball
• Martina Navratilova, Tennis
• Michael Kuluva, Figure Skating
• Michael Strahan, Football
• Mike Chabala, Soccer
• Nic Harris, Football
• Patty Sheehan, Golf
• Paul Bissonnette, Hockey
• Scott Fujita, Football
• Sean Avery, Hockey
• Steve Nash, Basketball
• Zeke Thomas, Basketball

Actors, Performers & Producers

• Al Franken
• Angela Shelton (Frangela)
• Angelina Jolie
• Anne Hathaway
• Anne Heche
• Alyssa Milano
• Barbra Streisand
• Bea Arthur
• Ben Affleck
• Bill T. Jones
• Bob Smith
• Bob Wright
• Brad Pitt
• Bridgett Fonda
• Bruce Cohen
• Bruce Vilanch
• Carol Kane
• Chad Allen
• Charlize Theron
• Chita Rivera
• Cristina Saralegui
• Cynthia Nixon
• David Geffen
• David Duchovny
• David Hyde Pierce
• Debra Messing
• Del Shores
• Diana Montford, Host, "Diana Montford Show"
• Drew Barrymore
• Elizabeth Banks
• Elisabeth Hasselbeck
• Elizabeth Taylo (deseased)
• Ellen DeGeneres
• Eric McCormack
• Frances Callier (Frangela)
• Gillian Anderson
• George Takei
• Greg Berlanti
• Gus Van Sant
• Gwyneth Paltrow
• Harris Yulin
• Harvey Fierstein
• Helen Hunt
• Howard Stern
• Hugh Jackman
• Jane Lynch
• Jason Tam
• Jay-Z
• Joan Rivers
• Joel Grey
• John Leguizamo
• John Norris
• Jonathan Murray
• Judith Light
• Julianne Moore
• Kathleen Chalfant
• Kathy Najimy
• Kody Brown and his four Sister-Wives
• Laura Dern
• Lea Delaria
• Lee Meriwether
• Leeza Gibbons
• Lily Tomlin
• Lucy Lawless
• Mandy Patinkin
• Margaret Cho
• Mark Ruffalo & his wife Sunrise
• Marlee Matlin
• Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue
• Martin Sheen
• Mary McCormack
• Matt Damon
• Matthew Broderick
• Maya Angelou
• Meg Ryan
• Megan Mullaly
• Melanie Griffith & Antonio Banderas
• Michael Stratton
• Mike Farrell
• Miley Cyrus
• Mitchell Anderson
• Natalie Portman
• Neve Campbell
• Norman Lear
• Patty Duke
• Paul Reiser
• Pauley Perrette
• Rachel Maddow
• Randy Becker & Shae D'lyn
• Reichen Lehmkuhl
• Ricki Lake 
• Robin Tyler & wife Diane Olsen Tyler
• Rob Reiner
• Sam Waterston
• Sandra Bernhard
• Selene Luna
• Snooki
• Stanley Tucci
• Stephen Colbert
• Stephen Fry
• Stephen Spielberg
• Suzanna Whang
• T.R. Knight
• Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen
• Tony Kushner
• Tyne Daley
• Vanessa Williams
• Wanda Sykes
• Werner Klemperer
• Will Smith
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Zoe Wanamaker

Musicians

• Beck
• Bonnie Raitt
• Brian Kent
• Celisse Henderson
• Cheryl & Javonne
• Cyndi Lauper
• Dave Hall
• David Brown
• David Crosby
• David Raleigh
• Elton John
• Eminem
• Feloni
• Foxxjazell
• Gayle Von
• Holly Near
• Jack Schell
• Jaclyn Falk
• Jason & DeMarco
• Jason Mraz
• Jay Jacobson
• Jenn August
• Julie Cypher
• k.d. lang
• Ken Greves
• Lady Gaga
• LeAnn Rimes
• Len Schaffer
• Luscious Jackson
• Madonna
• Mary J. Blige
• Matt Alber
• Melissa Etheridge
• Paul James Frantz
• Pete Seeger
• Peter Sky
• Rufus Wainwright
• Ryan Hill
• Sean Chapin
• Shelley Goldstein
• Sir Ari Gold
• Tannyr Denby
• Tom Goss