Word: newsom
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...wanted to get to Mayor Gavin Newsom's office at San Francisco's city hall last week, you had to navigate your way through a happy sea of gay newlyweds. Dozens of small groups were strewn randomly on the mayor's balcony, on the grand staircase, under the echoing rotunda modeled on the U.S. Capitol. Each group offered a similar emotional tableau: the couple beaming with pride, the earnest volunteer officiator in casual dress, the distracted children, the supportive friends wielding cameras or holding up cell phones so parents could hear...
Which is exactly the kind of scene Mayor Newsom imagined when he put the gay wedding train in motion just before Valentine's Day. "Put a human face on it. Let's not talk about it in theory," he explains. "Give me a story. Give me lives." The only thing Newsom was surprised by was the sheer number of lives involved--he hadn't expected so many out-of-state couples. By Friday, nearly 6,000 same-sex newlyweds had streamed out of city hall...
MARRIED. HUNDREDS OF GAY AND LESBIAN COUPLES; by San Francisco city officials; after Mayor Gavin Newsom asked the county clerk's office to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in defiance of a California law barring homosexual nuptials; in San Francisco. Among the couples pronounced "spouses for life" were PHYLLIS LYON, 79, and DEL MARTIN, 83, who founded the nation's first lesbian organization 49 years ago. Opponents of the licenses are seeking a restraining order to prevent the city from granting more...
...MARRIED. PHYLLIS LYON, 79, and DEL MARTIN, 83, founders of the U.S.'s first lesbian organization, 49 years ago; becoming the first to take advantage of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's instruction to the county clerk's office to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses (in defiance of a Californian law); in San Francisco. Hundreds of couples have followed suit. Opponents of the licenses are seeking a restraining order to prevent the city from granting more...
...counterculture capital, Newsom's advantage may be a drawback. "I tell Democrats, 'Want to have an easier race against a Green? Don't outspend him 10 to one,'" Gonzalez says. "It's such an unlevel playing field, the electorate starts to identify with the small...