Over the next 30 years, he advocated for marriage equality within the broader LGBT movement and built the critical mass necessary for it to become reality. Would accepting it signal to others that the fight was over and suck energy out of the struggle to full marriage equality? Obama himself came out in support of marriage equality, and ultimately the Supreme Court found that preventing gays and lesbians from entering into equal marriage was unconstitutional. A growing number of families now saw themselves as part of the push for marriage equality. That dynamic of familiarity allowed the LGBT equality movement to achieve its goal faster than anyone could have predicted.