California holds first gay weddg sce 2008, San Francis - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• CALIFORNIA HOLDS FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE 2008, SAN FRANCIS
• FIRST GAY UPL TIE THE KNOT CALIFORNIA
• WHEN DID GAY MARRIAGE BEME LEGAL IN CALIFORNIA5 M READ
• OCTOGENARIAN GAY-RIGHTS PNEERS WED CALIFORNIA
• GAY UPL CALIFORNIA GET MARRIAGE LICENS
• CALIFORNIA HOLDS FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE 2008, SAN FRANCIS

CALIFORNIA HOLDS FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE 2008, SAN FRANCIS

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTJune 17, 2008SAN FRANCISCO — Wh a seri of simple “I dos, ” gay upl across California gurated the state’s urt-approved and potentially short-lived legalizatn of same-sex marriage on Monday, the first of what is expected to be a csh of such unns g weeks. In San Francis, Del Mart, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 84, longtime gay rights activists, were the first and only uple to be wed here, sayg their vows the office of Mayor Gav Newsom, before emergg to a throng of reporters and screamg well-wishers. ” Outsi Cy Hall, several hundred supporters and protters chanted, cheered and jeered equal measure, givg an unly rnival feel to the scene, plete wh a marchg band playg weddg songs and signs readg “Homo Sex is S.

Atkson and staff members were at a gay pri celebratn Sonoma handg out applitns for marriage licens to prospective newlyweds. In ral Kern County, north of Los Angel, the unty clerk has nceled all weddgs performed by her office, a posn she took after nsultg wh the Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona legal group that argu agast marriage for gay men and lbians. “They provid a place for lbians who were really, really, really the closet to hang out and dance, have holiday potlucks so they wouldn’t have to go home and hang out wh their homophobic relativ, ” said Shayne Watson, an archectural historian who specializ LGBTQ herage nservatn and was active the movement to get the home clared a and Lyon bought the simple one-bedroom hoe, terraced up the hillsi, as a uple 1955, the same year they -found the Dghters of Bilis, a polil and social anizatn for group started as a social support anizatn but quickly got to activism and polics.

His advisors and gay rights advot had the perfect uple md to be the public face of the movement.

FIRST GAY UPL TIE THE KNOT CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO -- California held s first gay marriage sce 2008 as state Atty. About an hour earlier, the 9th Circu Court of Appeals had cleared the way for gay marriag to rume California.

The urt lifted s stay on an junctn that orred state officials to stop enforcg Proposn 8, California’s ban on gay marriage.

WHEN DID GAY MARRIAGE BEME LEGAL IN CALIFORNIA5 M READ

” DOCUMENT: Court orr dissolvg stayThe thors of Proposn 8 nounced the immediate rumptn of gay marriag California after Friday’s cisn to greenlight same-sex weddgs immediately.

California voters passed Proposn 8 2008, six months after the California Supreme Court led that gays had the right to wed. Marriage licens already are genr-ntral, and clerks began receivg lls Wednday om gay upl wantg to schle lled on the 9th Circu on Wednday to lift s hold on Walker’s lg immediately.

OCTOGENARIAN GAY-RIGHTS PNEERS WED CALIFORNIA

ALSO:Prop 8: Gay marriag n rume California, urt lKamala Harris officiatg Prop. Jerry Brown’s office orrg unti to rume gay marriage.

“We cried like babi, ” Olson and Tyler are a part of a small tribe of gay and lbian activists whose urt battl for marriage rights at the state level helped pave the way to Friday’s historic lg by the natn’s hight 2004, after beg nied repeatedly at the Beverly Hills urthoe, they sued to challenge California’s same-sex marriage ban. They were the first same-sex uple to do so Los Angel that year, California voters approved Proposn 8, which put gay marriag on hold.

They were close for many years – “Thanksgivg and Hankah iends”– until thgs turned romantic 22 years, a Canadian native wh short dark hair, was an outspoken gay-rights activist and a edian who often rporated her sexualy to her stand-up route (the name of one of her edy albums: “Always a Brismaid, Never a Groom”) was a California girl wh long, blond locks and, as Tyler scribed , wh “a very spirual si.

GAY UPL CALIFORNIA GET MARRIAGE LICENS

She and Olson have bee close iends and supporters of April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, a lbian uple om Michigan who were part of the Supreme Court ’s lg, she said, is not the end of the stggle for civil rights for gays, lbians, bisexual and transgenr people. SOURCE: “WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: AMERICA, EQUALITY, AND GAY PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO MARRY, ” BY EVAN WOLFSON (2004).

Amid cheers and tears, gay and lbian upl began tyg the knot California on Monday, as a historic urt lg legalizg same-sex marriage Ameri's most populo state took effect. "A gaggle of around 20 prottors gathered near the weddg rryg banners wh slogans that clud: "Homo Sex is S!

""God is lookg down at , lookg at this event today, and he is not pleased, " prottor John Frankl told a the same time San Francis, Mayor Gav Newsom officiated at the weddg of veteran mpaigners Del Mart, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 83, who exchanged vows after 56 years uple ma ternatnal headl 2004 when they were married the first round of same-sex marriag San Francis, only for their nuptials to later be clared two dozen gay and lbian upl were due to tie the knot across California on Monday, the Los Angel Tim legalizatn of same-sex marriage California is expected to create a mi-dtry worth several hundred ln dollars, as upl flock to the state om around the untry to tie the knot.

CALIFORNIA HOLDS FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE 2008, SAN FRANCIS

A recent poll showed 52 percent of Californians supported homosexual marriage pared to 41 percent who opposed of the prumptive ndidat the November printial electn, Democrat hopeful Barack Obama and Republin Senator John McCa, are opposed to same-sex marriag but are agast a nstutnal ban on the issue.

Catholic church lears Los Angel on Monday registered their disapproval of same-sex marriage while llg for gays and lbians to be accepted wh rpect and sensivy. The lbian uple whose legal stggle helped pave the way for gay marriage California is gettg divorced. Rob Tyler and Diane Olson were the origal platiffs the California Supreme Court se (argued by attorney Gloria Allred) that opened the doors to lbian and gay marriage the natn's most-populo state.

Durg the mpaign over Proposn 8 - the voter-approved iative that ultimately overturned the urt's cisn and banned gay marriage - Olson and Tyler appeared mpaign ads askg the voters to not "take our marriage away.