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2. San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. History of marriage in California - Wikipedia

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   In 2001, same-sex couples (including Davina Kotulski and Molly McKay) from Marriage Equality USA began asking for marriage licenses in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The issue of same-sex marriage reemerged in 2004, when Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom directed the city-county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, citing the ...

4. Same-sex marriage in California - Wikipedia

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   Same-sex marriage has been legal in California since June 28, 2013. The State of California first issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples from June 16, 2008 to November 5, 2008, a period of approximately 4 months, 2 weeks and 6 days, as a result of the Supreme Court of California finding in the case of In re Marriage Cases that barring same-sex couples from marriage violated the ...

5. Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon - Wikipedia

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   On February 12, 2004, Martin and Lyon were issued a marriage license by the City and County of San Francisco after mayor Gavin Newsom ordered that marriage licenses be given to same-sex couples who requested them. [16] The license, along with those of several thousand other same-sex couples, was voided by the California Supreme Court on August ...

6. Gavin Newsom - Wikipedia

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   Newsom gained national attention in 2004 when he directed the San Francisco city–county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, violating state law. [46] In August 2004, the Supreme Court of California annulled the marriages Newsom had authorized, as they conflicted with state law.

7. 2004 in LGBTQ rights - Wikipedia

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   17 – San Francisco Superior court Judge James L. Warner postpones any decision to block San Francisco from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples and to void the 2,464 same-sex marriages that were performed in the city since February 12. This was on the grounds that the Proposition 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund's order for San ...