Gav Newsom was jumpg to the r, head to a breakfast speech on job creatn, when a monplace day turned extraordary: The Supreme Court of the Uned Stat had affirmed the right of gays to marry.
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- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE
- GAY CY HALL GAY, GEIA
- GAY UPL LE UP TO WED SAN FRANCIS AFTER URT LIFTS MARRIAGE BAN
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
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Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N. Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St. Gav Newsom was jumpg to the r, head to a breakfast speech on job creatn, when a monplace day turned extraordary: The Supreme Court of the Uned Stat had affirmed the right of gays to rights have been fought for over s.
But among the polil class, Newsom was the protagonist who almost sglehandly wrenched gay marriage onto California’s radar. As San Francis mayor 2004 he phed the cy to issue marriage licens to gay upl, openg a turbulent 11-year siege of unns celebrated and blocked, anti-marriage mpaigns and urt battl, and public opposn that slowly then swiftly turned to public Friday, a majory of the urt’s jtic announced that they, too, saw gay marriage as a basic right too long nied.
Not after the ballot measur all over the untry subsequent years that sought to forbid gay marriage. 12, 2004, ma the first municipaly the natn to issue marriage licens to gay upl. It was a rebell gture: Gay marriage was illegal almost everywhere, cludg the state of California.
GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE
Senators, om the Bay area — were opposed to gay marriage. A Los Angel Tim poll taken two months after Newsom’s actn showed that only 31% of Californians supported gay marriage, while 40% nsired morally ’s actn was ultimately quashed by the urts but he remaed an tegral player, the worst way.
In May of 2008, when the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, he growled out a fger-potg, tntg msage to gay marriage opponents. In the narrowg marg was a harbger of astonishg change to the last several years, approval of gay marriage has surged at warp speed.
A USC Dornsife/Los Angel Tim poll May of 2013 found that 58% of Californians approved of gay marriage, almost double the percentage om ne years earlier.
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In that poll, more than a quarter of nservativ and 35% of Republins supported gay marriage. And is voters who have led the policians: Not until late sprg of 2012, after he was publicly prodd by Vice Print Joe Bin, did Print Obama pronounce his support for gay marriage, a move that Newsom lled “a profound moment” bee of the petive reelectn race the print faced.
Dianne Feste did say 2004 that gay marriage surfaced “too much, too fast, too soon.
’”More needs to be done on the gay rights ont, he said, as dited by recent battl Indiana and elsewhere over whether bs owners n refe to serve gays.
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“This cisn today is not gog to end homophobia, ’s not gog to end bigotry agast the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muni, ” he said. Outsi Cy Hall, hundreds gathered for a rally to celebrate the victory, many cheerg when the gay pri rabow flag was raised on the pole.
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