

His biological mother, Terry, tall mom, conceived Zach in 1991 through artificial insemination. In that moment it was clear to him there was nobody like him in the room, no one else to speak up.

The teacher said, How do you know it was crazy? I immediately said he was saying all these crazy things about gay parents. The next day in class, we were asked what we thought of what we saw.

I remember listening to him talk about having gay parents and the threat of gay marriage, says Wahls, 21. The night everything went crazy, the night Zach Wahls life went viral, he remembers thinking back to eighth grade when his class was assigned to watch the 2004 Republican National Convention and he was struck by remarks by then Sen.
