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LBIAN AND GAY COUPL SAN FRANCIS ARE GRANTED MARRIAGE LICENS
12, 2004, turned to a 29-day saga durg which more than 4, 000 upl wed, tapultg Newsom to the natnal move drew reb om social nservativ and proment Democrats, cludg gay rights ins and Newsom’s polil mentors. The fallout rippled to the 2004 printial electn and the succsful 2008 mpaign for Proposn 8, which banned gay marriag , five years sce the U. ”There was no ht that gay marriage would be anywhere on Newsom’s agenda when he ran for mayor 2003.
Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francis), has said that was the moment he knew he had to do after he told his chief of staff, Steve Kawa, who is gay, that he tend to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl. ”The hatn was shared by proment gay rights activists. ”The mayor’s growg natnal stature as a gay rights warrr irked some who long had worked for the e.
“I really thk he stood on the shoulrs of a lot of people who had suffered and died, ” said Tom Ammiano, a former supervisor and assemblyman who is gay.