As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
Contents:
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- HOLLYWOOD’S GAY POWER COUPL: SARAH PLSON AND HOLLAND TAYLOR, MORE
- THE MYSTERY PHOTOS OF A 1957 GAY WEDDG
- GAY UPLE GETS MARRIED KOLKATA; PICTUR TAKE TER BY STORM
- WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
- COUPL TIE THE KNOT VIEW SLISHOW TORI AND KATE KUYKENDALL, WHO HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FIVE YEARS, GURATE THEIR NEW MARRIAGE WH A KISS. WH THEM AT THE CEREMONY A PARK WT HOLLYWOOD IS THEIR 5-MONTH-OLD DGHTER, ZADIE. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) AT THE IND URTHOE, PHILIP COLAVO, LEFT, AND DEAN SEYMOUR HUG AS SEYMOUR’S MOTHER WONA GURE, FLORAL DRS, AND OTHERS LOOK ON. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (IRFAN KHAN / LOS ANGEL TIM) HANK DONAT, LEFT, AND JEFF HALPERN, RIGHT, JOKE WH SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR AARON PK, CENTER, WHO MARRIED THEM THE SUPERVISORS’ CHAMBERS. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) A NEWLY MARRIED UPLE, JOE ALFANO, LEFT, AND FRANK CAPLEY HUG THE ROTUNDA OF SAN FRANCIS’S CY HALL. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) AS LIA SHIGEMURA, LEFT, AND HELEN ZIA KISS AT SAN FRANCIS CY HALL, ZIA’S MOTHER, BEIL ZIA, SHOWS HER JOY FOR THE OAKLAND UPLE. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) OUTSI THE L.A. UNTY CLERK’S OFFICE NORWALK, JENNIFER RAMOS, LEFT, AND ANTOETTE BANTIGUE WA THEIR TURN. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (SPENCER WEER / LOS ANGEL TIM) THE NEWLY MARRIED AMBER WEISS, RIGHT AND SHARON PAPO PREPARE TO WALK DOWN THE MA STAIRS SI SAN FRANCIS CY HALL. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) TORI, LEFT, AND KATE KUYKENDALL MAKE THEIR WAY TO GET A MARRIAGE LICENSE AT THE WT HOLLYWOOD AUDORIUM. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) CAROL LAIR PLAC A RG ON COLETTE SHEWCRAFT’S FGER AS THE UPLE EXCHANG WEDDG VOWS OUTSI THE KERN COUNTY BUILDG BAKERSFIELD TUDAY, THE FIRST FULL DAY SAME-SEX UPL N LEGALLY MARRY CALIFORNIA. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (BRIAN VANR BG / LOS ANGEL TIM) BAKERSFIELD RINTS KATHI GOSE, 52, LEFT, AND KAREN BRIEFER, 45, EMBRACE AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE CEREMONY OUTSI THE KERN COUNTY BUILDG BAKERSFIELD TUDAY. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (BRIAN VANR BG / LOS ANGEL TIM) NEWLY MARRIED LORI RENEE, RIGHT, THROWS HER HANDS THE AIR AS LONG-TIME PARTNER WHNEY WEDLL EMBRAC HER AFTER THEY ARE PRONOUNCED MARRIED OUTSI THE KERN COUNTY BUILDG BAKERSFIELD. WEDLL’S SISTER TRACY WAS ALSO MARRIED AT THE UNTY BUILDG TUDAY. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (BRIAN VANR BG / LOS ANGEL TIM) THE WEDDG RGS FOR DEAN SEYMOUR AND PHILIP COLAVO. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (IRFAN KHAN / LOS ANGEL TIM) COUPL WA AT THE LOS ANGEL COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (SPENCER WEER / LOS ANGEL TIM) JEFF VAN HOOSER AND GREG MCCOLLUM RAISE THEIR RIGHT HANDS WHILE SWEARG THAT THE RMATN ON THEIR WEDDG CERTIFITE IS TE AND ACCURATE WHILE THEIR CHILDREN KATE AND LUS S ON THEIR LAPS AT THE OLD COURTHOE SANTA ANA. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (MARK BOSTER / LOS ANGEL TIM) JAIME MUNOZ AND WILLIAM LUNDQUIST ARE ONE OF THE FIRST UPL TO EXCHANGE VOWS THE OLD COURTHOE SANTA ANA. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (MARK BOSTER / LOS ANGEL TIM) WH A FLAG OM HOME, DAVID GREENBM, 37, LEFT, AND MIKE SILVERMAN, 35, BOTH OF LAWRENCE, KAN., POSE ONT OF SAN FRANCIS CY HALL SHORTLY AFTER 7 A.M. ON THE FIRST FULL DAY THAT MARRIAGE LICENS FOR SAME-SEX UPL WERE ISSUED CALIFORNIA. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) ROB TYLER, LEFT, AND DIANE OLSON SIGN THEIR MARRIAGE CERTIFITE. THEY WERE THE FIRST AND ONLY UPLE LOS ANGEL COUNTY TO OBTA A MARRIAGE LICENSE MONDAY, AFTER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BEME LEGAL CALIFORNIA AT 5:01 P.M. BY ORR OF THE STATE SUPREME COURT. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (LUIS S / LOS ANGEL TIM) AFTER THE CEREMONY, ONE OF THE BRIS CLARED, “MY NAME IS ROB TYLER AND ID LIKE TO TRODUCE YOU TO MY WIFE!” MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (LUIS S / LOS ANGEL TIM) JULIE AND JOHN MALASPA OF CATHOLICS FOR THE COMMON GOOD PROTT OUTSI SAN FRANCIS CY HALL BEFORE THE PHYLLIS LYON-DEL MART CEREMONY. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) LYON, TURQUOISE, AND MART MOVE TOWARD THEIR WEDDG KE AT A PUBLIC RECEPTN OUTSI THE MAYOR’S OFFICE. “THEY HAVE SPENT A HALF CENTURY FIGHTG FOR EQUALY,” SAN FRANCIS MAYOR GAV NEWSOM SAID. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) MARK CHAMBERS, LEFT, WHO SUPPORTS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND PROTTER KEV FARRER NONT EACH OTHER OUTSI SAN FRANCISO CY HALL, WHERE ABOUT A THOAND PEOPLE WAED FOR LYON AND MART TO EMERGE. MORE PHOTOS • CALIFORNIA’S FIRST LEGAL GAY MARRIAG MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) PL WATERS, LEFT, IS RTED DOWN THE AISLE AT HIS WEDDG TO KEV VOECKS, RIGHT, BY PL’S MOTHER PEGGY WATERS ON JUNE 17, 2008. PL WATERS AND VOECKS HAVE LIVED TOGETHER 15 YEARS AND WERE ONE OF THE FIRST UPL TO GET MARRIED ON TUDAY. (GARY FRIEDMAN / LOS ANGEL TIM) 1/22SHOW SLI INFORMATN COUPL TIE THE KNOT
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
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The pictur appear to pict a gay weddg, nearly 50 years before same-sex marriage was legal anywhere the US and almost 60 years before beme a ferally-regnised, a tr of gay producers and wrers are tryg to intify the grooms to learn their story and to fd out whether a pharmacy employee balked at providg the snaps bee they objected to their wrers are documentg their efforts a realy show The Mystery of the 1957 Gay Weddg Photos. The US Supreme Court didn't regnise the right for gay people to marry the person of their choice until 2015, 11 years after Massachetts did source, ONE Archiv at USC"We don't know how mon or unmon was for upl to hold ceremoni to marry each other [bee] there is so ltle photographic or film rerd of how people actually lived, " says Eric Marc, host of the Makg Gay History podst. Image source, ONE Archiv at USCImage ptn, Weddg guts at the mystery weddgSeveral years before the weddg took place, Print Dwight Eisenhower signed an executive orr banng gays om workg for the feral ernment.
In 1952, The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn classified homosexualy as a "socpathic personaly disturbance" the first edn of s Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM), the listg of known psychiatric disorrs. After nsirable lobbyg by activists, the APA removed homosexualy om the send edn of the DSM Stonewall Rts, nsired to be the birth of the morn gay rights movement, had happened a few years before that 1969 - 12 years after the source, ONE Archiv at USCIt's not jt the passage of time that will hr the search for the grooms. They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs.
HOLLYWOOD’S GAY POWER COUPL: SARAH PLSON AND HOLLAND TAYLOR, MORE
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Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.
Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". A project of 17 portras of activists om the gay muny Israel, the works were pated 2005-2003The drawgs are a hyper-realistic style of activists and activi om the gay muny Israel, of urse there are other inic figur that I did not draw so I apologize advance to them, the activists are om the polil, cultural and nightlife fields who ntributed to the gay muny durg the 80's and 90's of the twentieth century.
Itai Pankas - former chairman of the LGBT Associatn, one of the founrs of the gay center, branch of the associatn the periphery, and a former activist municipal polics who greatly promoted the rights of the muny Tel Aviv. And of urse many patgs were ma eely om the imagatn, so technilly I allow myself to e a huge selectn of most patg techniqu, also wh the many years of experience I have experimented wh all mediums om pencil drawgs, markers, markers, k, oil pats, acrylic pats, waterlors, gouache pats, works on paper and nvas fabrics, works on woon plywood, works on books, I was surprised to see that most of the activists, regardls of their activi for the gay muny, are domant figur the life of Israeli society, most of them officers the IDF (as opposed to the image that gays have as if they are not suable for the army) wh profsns that ntribute greatly to the velopment of Israeli society on an enomic, cultural and social of them are a high enomic suatn and om the ele of Israeli society, I pated them their natural environment, the betiful and well-kept ho and some of them are jt a portra whout a goal was actually to show the bourgeois si of the muny, through the patg of the nservative realist style, through the portra agast the background of the terr of the well-kept hoe which they live, and choosg activists of all ag (as opposed to the many reprentatns given to gays who are shown equently or margally, or excsive preoccupatn wh the culture of body worship, the bety and youth as is often shown the gay muny. I also have que a few such the seri of portras, I wanted to emphasize the occupatn and ntributn to the project was featured on the pag of the Pk Time magaze for months, wh the rume scriptn of each and every 2009 on the day of the Pri Para, (a mass event wh hundreds of thoands of people) Avi Sofer curated the exhibn dited to this project of the activists' patgs the gay center.
THE MYSTERY PHOTOS OF A 1957 GAY WEDDG
For me was a way to give back to the gay muny for the many years that gay muny settgs such as bs, f, magaz, gay centers prented my works, supported me as an artist and members of the muny also purchased works of art om me and allowed me to ntue creatg and workg, a plex task self for any artist to survive om his art. Over the years my work as an artist has changed and I would characterize two ma patg styl, one patg style is the realistic patg wh which I created the seri of patgs of heterosexual upl, gays, lbians, pregnant women, the seri of portras om the gay muny the style of photorealism, a realistic patg of the partner Assaf Hennigsberg a realistic style - lorful and the seri of patgs of the realistic exprsive flower upl, and on the other hand there is the other style which is the naive patg wh which I maly pated the urban landspe of ci Israel and the world, a kd of ializatn of realy and the street patgs full of vegetatn, lorful buildgs and the e of bright and ntrastg lors and a seri of naive patgs Unr the fluence of children's drawgs wh which I created the seri of 40 artist books and other drawgs that are fluenced by children's drawgs...
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GAY UPLE GETS MARRIED KOLKATA; PICTUR TAKE TER BY STORM
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WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
PolicsRepublin told gay son he was agast same-sex marriage billA Pennsylvania ngrsman said that before tryg to block the Rpect for Marriage Act, he told his newly-wedd gay son that he would vote agast the bill.
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Queerns uld be appreciated on stage, but the every day liv of major stars was often hidn sham unns known as "lavenr marriag, " acrdg to Stephen Tropiano, profsor of Screen Studi at Itha College and thor of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on marriag were arranged by Hollywood studs between one or more gay, lbian or bisexual people orr to hi their sexual orientatn om the public. Bowers’ acunt tails sexual enunters, gay and straight, that he claims he both arranged and took part , begng wrote that he had been sexually volved wh leadg actor Cary Grant and his roommate, Randolph Stt, for more than a .
COUPL TIE THE KNOT VIEW SLISHOW TORI AND KATE KUYKENDALL, WHO HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FIVE YEARS, GURATE THEIR NEW MARRIAGE WH A KISS. WH THEM AT THE CEREMONY A PARK WT HOLLYWOOD IS THEIR 5-MONTH-OLD DGHTER, ZADIE. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) AT THE IND URTHOE, PHILIP COLAVO, LEFT, AND DEAN SEYMOUR HUG AS SEYMOUR’S MOTHER WONA GURE, FLORAL DRS, AND OTHERS LOOK ON. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (IRFAN KHAN / LOS ANGEL TIM) HANK DONAT, LEFT, AND JEFF HALPERN, RIGHT, JOKE WH SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR AARON PK, CENTER, WHO MARRIED THEM THE SUPERVISORS’ CHAMBERS. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) A NEWLY MARRIED UPLE, JOE ALFANO, LEFT, AND FRANK CAPLEY HUG THE ROTUNDA OF SAN FRANCIS’S CY HALL. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) AS LIA SHIGEMURA, LEFT, AND HELEN ZIA KISS AT SAN FRANCIS CY HALL, ZIA’S MOTHER, BEIL ZIA, SHOWS HER JOY FOR THE OAKLAND UPLE. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) OUTSI THE L.A. UNTY CLERK’S OFFICE NORWALK, JENNIFER RAMOS, LEFT, AND ANTOETTE BANTIGUE WA THEIR TURN. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (SPENCER WEER / LOS ANGEL TIM) THE NEWLY MARRIED AMBER WEISS, RIGHT AND SHARON PAPO PREPARE TO WALK DOWN THE MA STAIRS SI SAN FRANCIS CY HALL. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) TORI, LEFT, AND KATE KUYKENDALL MAKE THEIR WAY TO GET A MARRIAGE LICENSE AT THE WT HOLLYWOOD AUDORIUM. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) CAROL LAIR PLAC A RG ON COLETTE SHEWCRAFT’S FGER AS THE UPLE EXCHANG WEDDG VOWS OUTSI THE KERN COUNTY BUILDG BAKERSFIELD TUDAY, THE FIRST FULL DAY SAME-SEX UPL N LEGALLY MARRY CALIFORNIA. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (BRIAN VANR BG / LOS ANGEL TIM) BAKERSFIELD RINTS KATHI GOSE, 52, LEFT, AND KAREN BRIEFER, 45, EMBRACE AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE CEREMONY OUTSI THE KERN COUNTY BUILDG BAKERSFIELD TUDAY. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (BRIAN VANR BG / LOS ANGEL TIM) NEWLY MARRIED LORI RENEE, RIGHT, THROWS HER HANDS THE AIR AS LONG-TIME PARTNER WHNEY WEDLL EMBRAC HER AFTER THEY ARE PRONOUNCED MARRIED OUTSI THE KERN COUNTY BUILDG BAKERSFIELD. WEDLL’S SISTER TRACY WAS ALSO MARRIED AT THE UNTY BUILDG TUDAY. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (BRIAN VANR BG / LOS ANGEL TIM) THE WEDDG RGS FOR DEAN SEYMOUR AND PHILIP COLAVO. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (IRFAN KHAN / LOS ANGEL TIM) COUPL WA AT THE LOS ANGEL COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (SPENCER WEER / LOS ANGEL TIM) JEFF VAN HOOSER AND GREG MCCOLLUM RAISE THEIR RIGHT HANDS WHILE SWEARG THAT THE RMATN ON THEIR WEDDG CERTIFITE IS TE AND ACCURATE WHILE THEIR CHILDREN KATE AND LUS S ON THEIR LAPS AT THE OLD COURTHOE SANTA ANA. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (MARK BOSTER / LOS ANGEL TIM) JAIME MUNOZ AND WILLIAM LUNDQUIST ARE ONE OF THE FIRST UPL TO EXCHANGE VOWS THE OLD COURTHOE SANTA ANA. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (MARK BOSTER / LOS ANGEL TIM) WH A FLAG OM HOME, DAVID GREENBM, 37, LEFT, AND MIKE SILVERMAN, 35, BOTH OF LAWRENCE, KAN., POSE ONT OF SAN FRANCIS CY HALL SHORTLY AFTER 7 A.M. ON THE FIRST FULL DAY THAT MARRIAGE LICENS FOR SAME-SEX UPL WERE ISSUED CALIFORNIA. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) ROB TYLER, LEFT, AND DIANE OLSON SIGN THEIR MARRIAGE CERTIFITE. THEY WERE THE FIRST AND ONLY UPLE LOS ANGEL COUNTY TO OBTA A MARRIAGE LICENSE MONDAY, AFTER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BEME LEGAL CALIFORNIA AT 5:01 P.M. BY ORR OF THE STATE SUPREME COURT. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (LUIS S / LOS ANGEL TIM) AFTER THE CEREMONY, ONE OF THE BRIS CLARED, “MY NAME IS ROB TYLER AND ID LIKE TO TRODUCE YOU TO MY WIFE!” MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (LUIS S / LOS ANGEL TIM) JULIE AND JOHN MALASPA OF CATHOLICS FOR THE COMMON GOOD PROTT OUTSI SAN FRANCIS CY HALL BEFORE THE PHYLLIS LYON-DEL MART CEREMONY. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) LYON, TURQUOISE, AND MART MOVE TOWARD THEIR WEDDG KE AT A PUBLIC RECEPTN OUTSI THE MAYOR’S OFFICE. “THEY HAVE SPENT A HALF CENTURY FIGHTG FOR EQUALY,” SAN FRANCIS MAYOR GAV NEWSOM SAID. MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) MARK CHAMBERS, LEFT, WHO SUPPORTS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND PROTTER KEV FARRER NONT EACH OTHER OUTSI SAN FRANCISO CY HALL, WHERE ABOUT A THOAND PEOPLE WAED FOR LYON AND MART TO EMERGE. MORE PHOTOS • CALIFORNIA’S FIRST LEGAL GAY MARRIAG MORE VERAGE • WH GAY MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL CALIFORNIA, ’S THE START OF A UPL’ CSH • OPPONENTS OF GAY MARRIAGE STAY MOSTLY QUIET -- FOR NOW (ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGEL TIM) PL WATERS, LEFT, IS RTED DOWN THE AISLE AT HIS WEDDG TO KEV VOECKS, RIGHT, BY PL’S MOTHER PEGGY WATERS ON JUNE 17, 2008. PL WATERS AND VOECKS HAVE LIVED TOGETHER 15 YEARS AND WERE ONE OF THE FIRST UPL TO GET MARRIED ON TUDAY. (GARY FRIEDMAN / LOS ANGEL TIM) 1/22SHOW SLI INFORMATN COUPL TIE THE KNOT
More verage • Wh gay marriage now legal California, ’s the start of a upl’ csh • Opponents of gay marriage stay mostly quiet -- for now (Barbara Davidson / Los Angel Tim) At the Ind urthoe, Philip Colavo, left, and Dean Seymour hug as Seymour’s mother Wona Gure, floral drs, and others look on. More verage • Wh gay marriage now legal California, ’s the start of a upl’ csh • Opponents of gay marriage stay mostly quiet -- for now (Irfan Khan / Los Angel Tim) Hank Donat, left, and Jeff Halpern, right, joke wh San Francis Supervisor Aaron Pk, center, who married them the supervisors’ chambers. More verage • Wh gay marriage now legal California, ’s the start of a upl’ csh • Opponents of gay marriage stay mostly quiet -- for now (Robert Durell / Los Angel Tim) A newly married uple, Joe Alfano, left, and Frank Capley hug the rotunda of San Francis’s Cy Hall.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
More verage • Wh gay marriage now legal California, ’s the start of a upl’ csh • Opponents of gay marriage stay mostly quiet -- for now (Robert Durell / Los Angel Tim) As Lia Shigemura, left, and Helen Zia kiss at San Francis Cy Hall, Zia’s mother, Beil Zia, shows her joy for the Oakland uple.
More verage • Wh gay marriage now legal California, ’s the start of a upl’ csh • Opponents of gay marriage stay mostly quiet -- for now (Spencer Weer / Los Angel Tim) The newly married Amber Weiss, right and Sharon Papo prepare to walk down the ma stairs si San Francis Cy Hall. More verage • Wh gay marriage now legal California, ’s the start of a upl’ csh • Opponents of gay marriage stay mostly quiet -- for now (Robert Durell / Los Angel Tim) Tori, left, and Kate Kuykendall make their way to get a marriage license at the Wt Hollywood Audorium. More verage • Wh gay marriage now legal California, ’s the start of a upl’ csh • Opponents of gay marriage stay mostly quiet -- for now (Barbara Davidson / Los Angel Tim) Carol Lair plac a rg on Colette Shewcraft’s fger as the uple exchang weddg vows outsi the Kern County Buildg Bakersfield Tuday, the first full day same-sex upl n legally marry California.