Hundreds of gay and lbian upl tie the knot as same sex-marriage be legal California. San Francis's Cy Hall was a popular spot Tuday.
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- GAY UPL LE UP TO WED SAN FRANCIS AFTER URT LIFTS MARRIAGE BAN
- GAY COUPL TIE THE KNOT AT S.F. CY HALL
GAY UPL LE UP TO WED SAN FRANCIS AFTER URT LIFTS MARRIAGE BAN
Potoczniak, who joed the Guard after the ary's ban on openly gay service was repealed almost two years ago, is schled to fly out Sunday night for a month of basic trag Texas. Supreme Court cleared the way for gay marriage to return to the natn's most populo state by lg 5-4 on Wednday that the sponsors of California's voter-approved ban on same-sex unns lacked thory to fend the measure urt. The cy, home to both a feral trial urt that stck down Proposn 8 as unnstutnal and the 9th Circu, has been the epicenter of the state's gay marriage movement sce then-Mayor Gav Newsom orred his admistratn Febary 2004 to issue licens to same-sex upl fiance of state law.
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.
GAY COUPL TIE THE KNOT AT S.F. CY HALL
”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.