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In addition, many cities and counties continue to provide their own domestic partnership registries while their states also provide larger registries (for all relationship recognitions); a couple can only maintain registration on one registry, requiring the couple to de-register from the state registry before registering with the county registry.
The Marriage Recognition and Family Protection Act also established that a same-sex marriage performed outside the state is recognized as "marriage" if it occurred before Proposition 8 took effect. This category also includes same-sex marriages performed before same-sex marriage became legal in California. [ 33 ]
Due to increased tension between the San Francisco Police Department and local skateboarders, the Youth Commission created a Skateboard Task Force to work towards providing legal venues for youth to skate. [4] In 2003, Matt Gonzalez included creating skate parks in his official platform. [5] Youth Recognition Day
Alaska Statute 25.05.261(a)(2) 1, allows anyone 18 years of age or older (including friends, relatives or non-residents of the United States) to perform a marriage ceremony if they first obtain a marriage commissioner appointment from an Alaskan court. The marriage license application and instructions are available on the Vital Statistics ...
GSA Network supporters marching at San Francisco Pride 2013. GSA Network is a nonprofit organization that assists students with starting gay–straight alliances (GSA) to fight homophobia and transphobia in schools. GSA Network originally focused on supporting youth in California, and still has its headquarters in Oakland, California, but is ...
The San Francisco LGBT community first fully formed in the 1920s and 1930s. [8] The most prominent LGBT area then was North Beach. [8] Mona's, San Francisco's first lesbian bar, opened on Union Street in 1934, and featured cross-dressing waitresses as well as entertainer Gladys Bentley. [9] Nightclubs with drag shows drew both gay and straight ...
The line of same-sex couples applying for marriage licenses stretched for blocks around San Francisco's City Hall in February 2004. In the 2004 State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush spoke against "activist judges [...] redefining marriage by court order;" this was interpreted as a response to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's 2003 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in ...
Caitlin Ryan is a clinical social worker who is considered a pioneer in research related to LGBTQ health and mental health. [1]Ryan is the director of the Family Acceptance Project (FAP), "a research, intervention, education and policy initiative that works to prevent health and mental health risks for LGBTQ children and youth" based out of the Marian Wright Edelman Institute at San Francisco ...