“John Kerry believes that same-sex couples should be granted rights,” according to the Web site. “Including access to pensions, health insurance, family medical leave, bereavement leave, hospital visitation, survivor benefits and other basic legal protections that all families and children need.”

Kerry, the son of former DC-3 pilot Richard Kerry, was born in Denver, Colo., on Dec. 11, 1943, at a military hospital, where his father was recovering from tuberculosis.

He went on to graduate from Yale University, and upon graduation joined the Navy, where he served as a Swift Boat officer in Vietnam. He returned home with many medals including, the Purple Heart and both the Bronze and Silver Stars.

He served as the district attorney for Middlesex County, where he put away the number two mob boss in New England.

Kerry changed the way the law was implemented in Middlesex County, according to his Web site.

“He modernized the district attorney's office, creating an innovative rape crisis crime unit, and as a lawyer in private practice,” according the Web site. “

The rights of minorities, particularly gay rights, have been an issue and a struggle for quite some time, Kerry said in a speech to the Human Rights Campaign.

Kerry would go on to serve as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1982 to 1984, after which he was elected to the Senate where he is currently serving.

“I believe it’s time to remind politicians quick to give speeches about the heroes of 9/11 that these men were heroes – heroes who happened to be gay. And those who were helped or saved that day did not ask whether their rescuer was straight or gay; for in that time we were what we always should be – one America.”

One of the many issues facing the gay community is persecution. Nothing seems to be more evident of this, than the 1972 attack of Morton Manford at a gay rights protest demonstration.

Though the issue of civil rights does include gays, Kerry challenges the American people to take up the slack and make America free once and for all.

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