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Eventually San Francisco and other communities, such as Berkeley, and some local agencies enacted a similar measure. In December 1984, Berkeley was the first city to pass a domestic partner policy for city and school district employees after a year of work by the Domestic Partner Task Force chaired by Leland Traiman.
In 1982, a domestic partnership law was adopted and passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, but Dianne Feinstein, mayor of San Francisco at the time, came under intense pressure from the Catholic Church and subsequently vetoed the bill. Not until 1989 was a domestic partnership law adopted in the city of San Francisco. [11]
In 1989, San Francisco became the second polity to a domestic partnership registry law. [4] However, voters repealed the domestic partnership law by initiative; a modified version was reinstated by another voter initiative, 1990's Proposition K, also written by Britt.
City of San Bruno [3] City of San Diego [3] City and County of San Francisco: Both partners residents of The City or at least one partner employed by City government. Both opposite- and same-sex couples. City of Santa Barbara: No residency requirement. Both opposite- and same-sex couples.
In October 2020, the city of San Francisco, by a clear unanimous 11–0 vote (by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors), banned false 911 emergency calls that discriminated against individuals on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
D.C. Council on May 6, 2008, approved the addition of 39 new provisions to the city's domestic partners law, bringing the law to a point where same-sex couples who register as domestic partners will receive most, but not quite all, of the rights and benefits of marriage under District law. [17]
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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 ...