First to Marry, After Five Decades
Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 83, will be the first same-sex couple to have a legal wedding in California. The couple, who have been together for over five decades, were also the first to wed when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom began marrying couples in 2004—marriages that were then revoked by the state. The couple were then among the plaintiffs in the case in which the Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples have the right to marry.
Martin has one daughter from a previous marriage to a man. She and Lyon, as many of you know, are also among the mothers of the lesbian-rights movement.
Newsom will repeat Martin and Lyon’s ceremony at 5 p.m. on June 16, and this time, there is no doubt it is legal. Very many congratulations to the couple.
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Wow. The founders of the Daughters of Bilitis — and thus, arguably, the lesbian chunk of the lesbian-gay-bi-trans civil rights movement — have seen so so much. Thank heavens they lived to see this.
[...] happy wedding day to Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, who will marry today at 5:01 p.m. Pacific, after waiting over 50 years. Two other plaintiffs in the marriage case, Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, who got the ball rolling [...]
[...] happy wedding day to Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, who will marry today at 5:01 p.m. Pacific, after waiting over 50 years. Two other plaintiffs in the marriage case, Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, who got the ball rolling [...]
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