Grand Marshal We are so proud to highlight two dads whose contribution to the LGBT


community and the fight for equal rights ended with them at the center of the biggest Supreme Court case of the year. Paul Campion and Randy Johnson are celebrated as Grand Marshals of the 2015 Greater Palm Springs Pride Parade. Paul Campion and Randy Johnson were one of the plaintiff couples in the case before the Supreme Court.


The Johnson-Campion Family and the 14th Amendment


The Fourteenth Amendment expanded the protection of civil rights to all Americans. In Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court held that the “Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-State.”


Paul Campion, born and raised in Jamestown, New York, met Randy Johnson, from just south of Louisville,


Kentucky in 1991 and immediately felt a connection. Both came from conservative towns with religious families, Paul was Roman Catholic and Randy was Southern Baptist. Randy rejected his sexuality until the day he met Paul. Paul moved to Kentucky to live with Randy, and they knew that they wanted to have children.


When Randy and Paul decided to begin the adoption process in the fall of 1994, they could only find one adoption agency that would allow a gay man to adopt a child, Adoptions of Kentucky. To their benefit, the agency was more concerned with whether a person would be a good parent, rather than focus on stereotypes and prejudices, which was exactly what Paul and Randy were looking for. However, only one of the men could be the legal guardian of the child; therefore, Paul became guardian of their first two children, Tevin and Tyler, born in February of 1995. Paul and Randy later wanted to include a daughter in their family and adopted


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