“And that, Marjorie — just so you will know, and your children will someday know — is the night the lights went out in Georgia!”

— Dixie Carter as Julia Sugarbaker in “Designing Women”; the scene was so beloved by gay fans that it played regularly at Hoedowns, the gay Atlanta country bar. Carter, age 70, died April 10.

6

- Members of Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps’ family who protested Drake University over a same-sex marriage forum.

500

- Protesters who turned out April 10 to counter the Phelps clan.

17

- Percent of white Tea Party supporters who favor gay marriage.

$120 million

- Estimated Social Security survivor benefits that LGBT taxpayers are deprived of each year; surviving partners lose an average $5,700 each.