When (and if) did you start supporting same-sex marriage?

[SATW]

I was staunchly opposed to LGBT rights for an extremely long time and was extremely homophobic until about 2009 (joke's on pre-2009 me, I'm bisexual lmao).

- I started supporting LGBT Adoption rights around late 2009.
- I started talking with LGBT people to try and understand their view on things and that slowly started to get me to temper and liberalize my views on LGBT issues. This was instrumental in getting me to support Democrat efforts to repeal DADT.
- I started supporting a very limited form of civil unions around 2011. I also stopping support a federal ban on LGBT marriage and believed it was a state's issue.
- Around 2011 I started to slowly stop suppressing my sexuality and by 2012 I understood that I wasnt' straight. I admitted to myself that I was either bisexual or gay late 2012.
- March 2013, I started supporting LGBT marriage, ENDA and other LGBT protections. I believe Hillary Clinton beat me out by a week or so in supporting Marriage equality ha.
- I started coming out to friends in 2014 and 2015.
- In 2016, I stopped using "Gay" as descriptive term for the community as a whole and started using LGBT or LGBT+. I think it's a sign that I'm more aware of community interests as a whole now.
- 2016, I have struggled to place my views on Trans rights. I thought I was fairly tolerate of trans people but this year I've clearly had different viewpoints then their community. Honestly, I didn't expect it to become an issue and it caught me off guard and I responded badly towards their issues as a response. So, clearly, while I am pro-LGBT, I still have ways to go.

[SATW]

I don't. But I'm growing more comfortable with the idea of it.

Out of interest- what do you mean 'comfortable'? I was sure that comfortable, aka personally fine with it, comes after realizing that it's a basic freedom but personally opposing.

I think it's more of being "comfortable" with the idea of homosexuality and bisexuality (etc...etc...) being normal things in society. That's how it was more me.

I accepted the normality of LGBT ---> then I started to accept I was bisexual or gay --> started to support limited LGBT protections ---> started identifying as bisexual ---> started to fully support LGBT equality.

I think for some straight people it's like going from the first to the last step and its takes more time for them to understand/accept it since they aren't LGBT and are not going through the same learning cycle that LGBT people or are.

Most moderate/Liberal straight supporters of LGBT are more easily able to sympathize with LGBT issues and problems and thus are more likely to go from first step to last step without much issue.