A couple celebrated their 24-year anniversary during San Francisco Gay Pride weekend, marking their journey through the marriage equality movement. In February 2004, they attempted to marry when Governor Gavin Newsom began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. However, they faced setbacks when the Supreme Court halted the marriages. Their fight for marriage rights led to their role as plaintiffs in California's marriage case. After a lengthy legal battle of four years and public advocacy, they finally married legally in California in 2008.
As we picked up our marriage license and were headed to the Clerk's office, news crews were racing into City Hall frantically yelling that the Supreme Court was shutting down the marriages.
We sensed our names were on that moment and that we had to stand in for all the gay and lesbian couples who deserved the right to marry yet were formally denied.
We spent the next four years identified very publicly as 'plaintiffs,' traveling up and down the state with filmmakers Geoff Callan and Mike Shaw screening their documentary, Pursuit of Equality.
When we finally were able to get legally married in California in 2008, Mayor Newsom, true to...
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