over the years, nania bear says the nature of the struggle changed, and gay people changed. when she began the suit, many gay people said, marriage? why? now, they consider themselves allies in the fight to save the institution. john? >> she started this fight such a long time ago, the early'90s. public opinion obviously changed quite a bit. what were thoughts on watching all this happen over the years? >> they said that when people came forward, there were a lot of people coming out. a lot of americans who didn't realize they knew gay people and had them in their lives as workmates, as family members, started to see that gay people were all around them. and the numbers bear that out. repeated surveys have found that you are more likely to support gay civil rights if you know a gay person well. and now, more americans know that they do. >> you can watch ray suarez on insi "inside story" weekdays at 5:00 p.m. eastern, 2:00 pacific time. >> mike lees is here with sports. >> the pressure of a nation was on a national team with the possibility of missing out on its first world c

. >> joining us now to talk about the new law in hawai'i is nania bear, the first american to sue for her right to marry her partner. here we are 25 years later. when you first embarked on this, did you imagine that it would take this long? >> i could not have foreseen what was going to happen. i will say that the day we actually applied for a marriage license in 1990 we really thought we might get one. when we didn't, my partner always thought we were going to win. i don't know that she thought it was going to take this long, but it's very sweet to finally be here. >> were lawyers ready to take on your case in the early 90s? were they encouraging about your prospects of success? >> no, we were not very sophisticated. this was not part of organized effort. we were in love. we wanted to get married. we applied for a license. at that time there was no organization gay or otherwise, that was willing to represent us. the aclu did submit friend of the court briefs. they were the first group on board, but we went with dan foley, a wonderful constitutional lawyer who was in private practice,

presume que las casas son como si fueran de ella pero nanÍa paloma. >> pero le pagan en los trabajosjaritos me lo dijo un loro porque estÁ como una cotorra sonando durÍsimo porque las redes sociales estÁn ardiendo, en su brazo derecho adivine quiÉn dejÓ ver un tatuaje que se acaba de hacÍa la tienen a miley cirus que plasmÓ un retrato de su abuela y nos mostrÓ pues todo el proceso. >> ella saca la niÑa que lleva pero muy pero muy pero muy dentro porque a veces no la vemos, mientras se tatuaba subÓo todas las fotitos y las compartiÓ ahÍ con nosotros y tambiÉn con su abuela que estÁ feliz de que se haya retratado en su brazo su rostro. >> la vemos con mucho amor, que lindo que tiene una abuelita que todavÍa la quiere, mi abuela la hubiese destronado, me hubiese desheredado, pero es otro tema. >> ana bÁrbara tuvo una cita con uno de mis animales favoritos el delfÍn en el sea world de san diego, estos animales los usan para terapias con niÑos porque de verdad que sÍ alegran a cualquiera. >> y uno de los fabricantes de muÑeca en el mundo si usted no lo ha visto, ya lo dije. >> pero tengo