ABSTRACT
Three days before President Barack Obama announced his support of same-sex marriage in May 2012, Vice President Joe Biden appeared on NBC’s morning news program Meet the Press and publicly declared his own support for marriage equality. Until that point, the Obama administration had offered only muted support. During Biden’s appearance, he credited the program Will & Grace (1998-2006) for shifting attitudes:
When things really begin to change, is when the social climate changes. I think Will & Grace probably did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody’s ever done so far. And I think people fear that which is different. Now they are beginning to understand.
