Houston Mayor Annise Parker cheered Barack Obama’s announcement that he supports marriage equality Wednesday. Parker, the first openly gay mayor of a major American city, received a call from top Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett about the news, Talking Points Memo reported. She cheered Obama’s announcement in a tweet: Wow! I was wrong. Call from White House. The President has stepped up and stated his support for recognizing relationships…like mine!-a — Annise Parker (@anniseparker) May 9, 2012In February in an appearance on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM radio program, Parker criticized the president’s reticence to support same-sex marriage, Signorile noted at the Huffington Post. Parker had said that Obama’s position on marriage equality, “needs to evolve a little bit faster and is not clearly where I think he…The post Annise Parker Cheers Obama’s Support of Marriage Equality appeared first on Texas Monthly.