Top Ten Viral Videos About Gay Marriage

Eleven months after we posted a video of 19-year-old Zach Wahls's testimony to the Iowa House of Representatives, Moveon.org published the video on its website and it's gone viral all over again!!

So it seemed like a good time to sit back and bask in the loveliness of Team Totally Right with some of our all-time favorite videos about gay marriage!

Ten Very Popular Videos About Same-Sex Marriage

(in no particular order)

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10. NYS Senator Diane Savino Speaks on the Marriage Equality Bill (December 2009)

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9. Keith Olberman's Special Comment on Gay Marriage (2008)

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8. Prop 8: The Musical (2008)

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7. Get UP! Australia: It's Time (November 2011)

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6. Commitment Ceremony by Julie Goldman (2007)

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5. Vote No to the MN Marriage Amendment (May 2011)

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4. Zach Wahls Speaks About Family (Feb 2011)

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3. A Gaythering Storm (NOM Parody) (Summer 2009)

2. Senator Mark J. Grisanti Speaks on New York Same Sex Marriage Bill (June 2011)

1. Little Boy Meets First Gay Couple (July 2011)

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41 responses to “Top Ten Viral Videos About Gay Marriage”

Sharon
December 1, 2011 at 11:42 am Permalink Reply

How about the one where Portia “apologizes” for marrying Ellen!

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1. Stephanie
  December 1, 2011 at 12:21 pm Permalink Reply
  
  I came down here to second this one :]
  
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  1. dizzy (member)
    December 1, 2011 at 12:45 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    Thirded!
    
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2. Sophie (member)
  December 1, 2011 at 3:19 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Never seen it… link?
  
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Yvonne
December 1, 2011 at 11:50 am Permalink Reply

that Get Up! Australia video almost made me cry.

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1. Lalalindsay
  December 1, 2011 at 12:20 pm Permalink Reply
  
  That one definitely did make me cry.
  
  #allthehormones
  #allthetears
  
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2. Carmen SanDiego (member)
  December 1, 2011 at 2:46 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  beautiful, makes me cry like a baby. Wish the video could be broadcasted here in the US.
  
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  1. Carmen SanDiego (member)
    December 1, 2011 at 2:54 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    also “end marriage discrimination” is a great slogan, we should adopt that.
    
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3. Salicet
  December 1, 2011 at 8:44 pm Permalink Reply
  
  Same here, if by “almost” you mean crying all over my keyboard.
  
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Andi (member)
December 1, 2011 at 11:54 am Permalink Reply Report user

this list makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

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Rachel (member)
December 1, 2011 at 12:00 pm Permalink Reply

Special Comment still makes me cry every time, three years later. I don’t even really know why! Keith Olbermann’s face is weird! But it’s like fucking Old Yeller up in here every time! THE EMBER OF LOVE.

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1. Lizz (member)
  December 1, 2011 at 4:46 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Same. Tears.
  
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2. Kittles (member)
  December 2, 2011 at 7:27 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment makes me want to go confront a bully…maybe hold him down and make him watch Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment.
  
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a
December 1, 2011 at 12:07 pm Permalink Reply

Not technically a marriage video, but in the theme of viral gay-related videos I thought I would bring up Joel Burns’ “It Gets Better” video so people can go watch it again and cry again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax96cghOnY4

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1. Annie (member)
  December 1, 2011 at 12:39 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Yes, I loved this video.
  
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Tarzan (member)
December 1, 2011 at 12:25 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Yes. Let’s post more viral gay videos, I love watching these. MOAAARRR!! POST MOARR!!!

Thanks

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Annie (member)
December 1, 2011 at 12:37 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Probably not viral yet (how many views does a video need to be considered viral?) but I loved the web series Husbands.

http://husbandstheseries.com/video/

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1. Trucy (member)
  December 1, 2011 at 4:28 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Husbands is amazing, I just got all caught up with it last night. More people need to watch it! And by more people I mean everyone.
  
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2. NewTexan (member)
  December 1, 2011 at 4:37 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I watched these as they came out, I’ve loved Jane Espenson since her Buffy days and would probably marry her if I could.
  
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dizzy (member)
December 1, 2011 at 12:41 pm Permalink Reply Report user

The Gaythering Storm video is 100% awesome. But I also love Stephen Colbert’s parody of the same NOM ad – http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/224789/april-16-2009/the-colbert-coalition-s-anti-gay-marriage-ad (ad starts around 3.30 but the rest is funny too).

“Oh god! The homo storm got me!”

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MJ
December 1, 2011 at 12:54 pm Permalink Reply

Does anyone remember the “Civil Unions” video where straight couples kept saying how they, “wanted to unite, civilly” or “civil unionize” eachother? I can’t seem to find it.

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Erin Brott
December 1, 2011 at 1:00 pm Permalink Reply

Let us not forget the image of Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon tying the knot
always makes me teary
http://groundspark.org/movies/onewedding/firstceremony_dsl.mov

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Andrea
December 1, 2011 at 1:14 pm Permalink Reply

And the “please don’t divorce us” one.

http://vimeo.com/3089746

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Jamie (member)
December 1, 2011 at 2:23 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Watching all these videos tonight for definitely. Cats and viral videos make the world go round.

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Danielle (member)
December 1, 2011 at 2:58 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Diane Savino is so incredibly awesome. Tear up every single time.

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Jacky Guerrero
December 1, 2011 at 4:34 pm Permalink Reply

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE JULIE GOLDMAN! SHE CRACKS ME UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ILL BUY ANYTHING WITH HER FACE ON IT!

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Lizz (member)
December 1, 2011 at 4:51 pm Permalink Reply Report user

It’ll be choreographed. It’ll be good.

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Paper0Flowers (member)
December 1, 2011 at 5:03 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Omigod, all of these videos. I watched them all again so that I could feel warm and fuzzy with indignation and rage that these still haven’t touched the heart of every single American.

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Dee (member)
December 1, 2011 at 6:24 pm Permalink Reply Report user

The one with the “husbands and husbands” still cracks me up every time. The wonderment of kids is admirable…more grown ups should be this exited about the idea!

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Ash (member)
December 1, 2011 at 7:17 pm Permalink Reply Report user

No Husbands the Series? It was all over twitter when it ran, and it’s brilliant. http://husbandstheseries.com/

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Em-Power-Me (member)
December 1, 2011 at 8:40 pm Permalink Reply Report user

LOVE what Diane Savino says!! My own father (long before I came out to family) would pontificate about how he resented the “changing of language” by calling gay marriage “marriage.” But as Diane points out, the definition of marriage has already been so altered that to deny it to certain people/groups in just discriminatory. I know that to accept marriage as male + male or female + female is still hard for many people, but that’s just because it’s new. Nothing stays the same through human history, especially not social constructs. Great videos!

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Surabhi (member)
December 1, 2011 at 9:13 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I love all of these videos equally (ha, get it?) especially the ones that make me cry like Dana died all over again. A Gaythering Storm has always been one of my favorites.

“Soon, gay people will start falling out of the sky.”

Um, yes please?

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lauren
December 1, 2011 at 11:13 pm Permalink Reply

Hey, check out this Canadian video from back when the same-sex marriage debates were happening in Canada. SHORT, FUNNY, AND TO THE POINT:

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Emily (member)
December 1, 2011 at 11:38 pm Permalink Reply Report user

keith olbermann forever!

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Lisa
December 2, 2011 at 4:10 am Permalink Reply

That’s a great collection of videos! Check out this one from Ireland.

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JanisBing
December 2, 2011 at 8:17 am Permalink Reply

Nooo where’s Philip Spooner? Guaranteed tears!

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Beez (member)
December 2, 2011 at 3:10 pm Permalink Reply Report user

http://www.giantgayrepellentumbrella.com IS A REAL WEBSITE. THIS WORLD IS AMAZING.

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Mer (member)
December 3, 2011 at 12:55 am Permalink Reply Report user

Maybe it’s because I’ve had a little bit to drink, but tears are spilling down my face because of Zach Wahls which my mom just posted a link to on Facebook. She hasn’t exactly been entirely accepting of me coming out so this is huge and then I saw the link on here which made me cry harder!!

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Stefanie (member)
December 4, 2011 at 8:56 am Permalink Reply Report user

I never cry and the Australian “It’s Time” one made me cry, it was just beautiful. I’d love a longer version charting one couple throughout their whole lives, meeting, dating, marriage, kids, sickness, health, old age and finally death.

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Lucy Hallowell
December 5, 2011 at 9:13 am Permalink Reply

Let’s look forward to the day when we are not compelled to show that our families produce perfect children or that we are perfect parents worthy of respect (and rights). It will be a good day when I do not feel the burden of representing all two-mom families whenever I venture out with my girls. Until then, thanks to Zach Wahls for standing up and speaking for his family and all of our families.

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Howdy
February 13, 2013 at 1:05 pm Permalink Reply

The new harlem shake youtube vids are awesome… A business in my industry just made one and then it’s like everyone in the field followed. Gotta get on the band wagon

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