Chicago OK with Gay - "You have to point out the strength of this community, your doctors, your lawyers, your journalists," Mayor Daley said. "They have adopted children. To me, we have to understand this is part and parcel of our families and extended families."

Other voices in major cities are starting to speak up about their belief in equal rights as well. Too little too late? Ohio recently became the 38th state to legally define marriage as "between a man and a woman."