Ahead of the weekend Pride Parade and Celebration, the San Francisco Office of the County Clerk married 250 couples Friday in a celebration of LGBTQ+ history and culture.
The occasion echoed San Francisco’s launching a national firestorm on gay marriage in 2004 when then-Mayor Gavin Newsom issued a marriage license to Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. It would be four more years before same-sex marriage became legal statewide.
And not until 2015, more than a decade after San Francisco’s County Clerk began issuing licenses as it did on Friday, was gay marriage legal nationwide as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges.
“The Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-state,” a majority of the court’s justices held, according to SCOTUSBlog.
At the County Clerk’s office on Friday, the newlywed couples beamed with glee in front of rainbow brick portrait backgrounds and balloon arrangements and as they showed off their rings. The city’s official Pride celebration begins Saturday at 11 a.m. and features six community stages, a drag story hour and a parade scheduled to last up to three hours.
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